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[ bahy-gawn, -gon ] / ˈbaɪˌgɔn, -ˌgɒn / SEE SYNONYMS FOR bygone ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivepast; gone by; earlier; former: The faded photograph brought memories of bygone days. nounUsually bygones. that which is past: Let's not talk of bygones. Idioms for bygonelet bygones be bygones, to decide to forget past disagreements; become reconciled: Let's let bygones be bygones and be friends again.
Origin of bygone1375–1425; late Middle English (north) by-gane;see gone, by1 Words nearby bygoneByelostok, Byelovo, by far, by fits and starts, by-form, bygone, bygones, by half, by halves, by hand, by heart Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for bygoneBlues music is often treated like a museum piece, a relic from a bygone day, but this band will make you want to get up and dance. The Best Albums of 2014|Ted Gioia|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST The outsized personalities of that time are also of a bygone era. Mickey Rooney Was Hollywood’s Golden Age Showman|Lorenza Muñoz|April 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST Three years on, doesn't it already feel like a leftover from a bygone era? Occupy Needs to Ride Again|Blake Gopnik|January 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST And now, dig into this profile of Royko, a giant from a bygone time. The Stacks: John Schulian’s Classic Profile of Newspaper Columnist Mike Royko|John Schulian|January 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Was he slipping into the shadows and assuming the more secretive posture of spymasters from a bygone era? Brennan Emerges From The Shadows|Daniel Klaidman|August 6, 2013|DAILY BEAST The children were in the habit of calling each other by that means in bygone years. The Slave Of The Lamp|Henry Seton Merriman The costume interests us not only as a reminder of bygone fashions, but for its picturesqueness. Sir Joshua Reynolds|Estelle M. Hurll His look of a bygone awake-in-sleep old look, drearily known to her, was like a strip of sunlight on a fortress wall. Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete|George Meredith The hill in bygone days was a popular rendezvous for Indian sweethearts, hence its name. I will but casually refer to two salient characteristics of the enormities of bygone times—to novels and to the theatre.
British Dictionary definitions for bygone
adjective(usually prenominal) past; former noun(often plural) a past occurrence (often plural) an artefact, implement, etc, of former domestic or industrial use, now often collected for interest let bygones be bygones to agree to forget past quarrels Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to bygonedead, ancient, former, lost, departed, antiquated, archaic, belated, dated, defunct, erstwhile, extinct, forgotten, gone, late, old-fashioned, old-time, one-time, out-of-date, previous |