past
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
past (plural pasts)
- The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
- a book about a time machine that can transport people back into the past
- 1830, Daniel Webster, a speech
- The past, at least, is secure.
- Richard Chenevix Trench, On the English Language, Past and Present
- The present is only intelligible in the light of the past, often a very remote past indeed.
- (grammar) The past tense.
- (period of time that has already happened) foretime, yestertide; see also Thesaurus:the past
- French: passé
- German: Vergangenheit
- Italian: passato
- Portuguese: passado
- Russian: про́шлое
- Spanish: pasado
- French: passé
- German: Vergangenheit, Präteritum
- Italian: passato
- Portuguese: pretérito, passado
- Russian: проше́дшее вре́мя
- Spanish: pretérito
past
- Having already happened; in the past; finished. [from 14th c.]
- past glories
- (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago. [from 15th c.]
- 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, page 538:
- That had been, what, three years past?
- 2009, John Sadler (historian), Glencoe, Amberley 2009, page 20:
- Some four decades past, as a boy, I had a chance encounter and conversation with the late W.A. Poucher [...].
- 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, page 538:
- Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous. [from 15th c.]
- during the past year
- (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state. [from 18th c.]
- past tense
- (having already happened) bygone, foregone; see also Thesaurus:past
- (having just gone by) foregone, preceding, used-to-be; see also Thesaurus:former
past
- In a direction that passes.
- Synonyms: by
- I watched him walk past
- (Should we move, merge or split([http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wiktionary%3ARequests+for+moves%2C+mergers+and+splits&action=edit§ion=new&preload=Template:rfm-sense/preload&preloadtitle=%5B%5Bpast%23rfm-sense-notice-en-%7cpast%5D%5D +]) this sense?) Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.
- Ignore them, we'll play past them.
- Please don't drive past the fruit stand, I want to stop there.
- Portuguese: por (aqui)
- Russian: ми́мо
- Beyond in place, quantity or time.
- the room past mine
- count past twenty
- past midnight
- No longer capable of.
- I'm past caring what he thinks of me.
- Having recovered or moved on from (a traumatic experience, etc.).
- (obsolete) Simple past tense and past participle of pass
, Virgil - Great Tuscane dames, as she their towns past by, / Wisht her their daughter-in-law, but frustrately.
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