Bygone

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Gone by; past: bygone days.
  • n. One, especially a grievance, that is past: Let bygones be bygones.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Having been or happened in the far past.
  • n. A person or occurrence that took place in the past.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Past; gone by.
  • n. Something gone by or past; a past event.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Past; gone by; hence, out of date; antiquated: as, “thy bygone fooleries,”
  • n. What is gone by and past: as, that is a bygone; let bygones be bygones; “let old bygones be,”
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. well in the past; former
  • n. past events to be put aside
  • Equivalent
    past   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    yesteryear    past    past times   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    past    pass   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    untold    long-ago    post-war    chivalric    olden    unclouded    eighteenth    Napoleonic    long-past    time-honored