Past
[pɑːst] or [pæst]
Definition
(noun.) a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past.
(noun.) the time that has elapsed; 'forget the past'.
(noun.) a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); 'reporters dug into the candidate's past'.
(adj.) earlier than the present time; no longer current; 'time past'; 'his youth is past'; 'this past Thursday'; 'the past year' .
(adj.) of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; 'a retiring member of the board' .
Inputed by Lewis--From WordNet
Definition
(v.) Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences.
(n.) A former time or state; a state of things gone by.
(prep.) Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of.
(prep.) Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour.
(prep.) Above; exceeding; more than.
(adv.) By; beyond; as, he ran past.
Typist: Miguel
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Spent, gone, ended, elapsed, gone by.
n. Past time, time gone by.
prep. [1]. Beyond, out of the reach of.[2]. After (in time).
ad. By.
Checked by Andrew
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Spent, gone_by, elapsed, departed, late
ANT:Present, unspent
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Definition
pa.p. of Pass.—adj. gone by: elapsed: ended: now retired from service: in time already passed.—prep. farther than: out of reach of: no longer capable of.—adv. by.—The past that which has passed esp. time.
Editor: Lucius
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity of which the one is continually effacing the other are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment the other bright with prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of sobs the Future is the realm of song. In the one crouches Memory clad in sackcloth and ashes mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing beckoning to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday the Future is the Past of to-morrow. They are one—the knowledge and the dream.
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Examples
- WINKLE [The above is a manly and handsome acknowledgment of past misdemeanors. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Go back as far as you will into the vague past, there was always a Damascus. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Tell my servant to bring me up some hot water at half-past eight in the morning, and that I shall not want him any more to-night. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I have noticed you go past our house, sir, several times in the course of the last week or so. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I'm sick of the beloved paSt.' 'Not so sick as I am of the accursed present,' he said. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She had gone to bed at half-past ten. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The first wave is past, and the argument is compelled to admit that men and women have common duties and pursuits. Plato. The Republic.
- Fields, trees, and hedges, seemed to rush past them with the velocity of a whirlwind, so rapid was the pace at which they tore along. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The eastern armies did not so much defeat him as push past him, and Paris capitulated in March. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It's midnight, and past; and I'll have nob'dy staying up i' my house any longer. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Her mind seemed wholly taken up with reminiscences of past gaiety, and aspirations after dissipations to come. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- It was past four o'clock in the morning when I got home. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Nations with a glorious past as to bravery but with a poor armament have gone down suddenly before smaller forces armed with modern ordnance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- There was no gratitude for affection past or present to make her better bear with its excesses to the others. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- And by reason of the employment of such vision in the past, Edison is now able to see quite clearly through the forest of difficulties after eliminating them one by one. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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