1. The time that has elapsed
   "forget the past"
   - past times, yesteryear 
2. A earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret)
   "reporters dug into the candidate's past" 
3. A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
   - past tense

1. Earlier than the present time; no longer current
   "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" 
2. Of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office
   - preceding, retiring

1. So as to pass a given point
   "every hour a train goes past"
   - by

Sounds like: passed

Derived forms: pasts

See also: ago, agone [archaic], ancient, bygone, bypast, chivalric, departed, early, erstwhile, foregone, former, gone, historic, historical, knightly, last, late, medieval, noncurrent, old, olden, onetime, one-time, other, outgoing, pastness, prehistoric, prehistorical, previous, quondam, recent, sometime, then, timing, ult, ultimo

Type of: period, period of time, tense, time, time period

Antonym: future, present

Part of: life

Encyclopedia: Past, Present, Future Past Past, Present and Future Past, Present & Future

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