'Bygone' definitions:
Definition of 'bygone'
From: WordNet
adjective
Well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone]
noun
Past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones" [syn: bygone, water under the bridge]
Definition of 'Bygone'
From: GCIDE
- Bygone \By"gone`\ (b[imac]"g[o^]n`; 115), a. Past; gone by. "Bygone fooleries." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Bygone'
From: GCIDE
- Bygone \By"gone`\, n. Something gone by or past; a past event. "Let old bygones be" --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- Let bygones be bygones, let the past be forgotten. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'bygone'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ago,
- antiquated,
- antique,
- archaic,
- belated,
- blown over,
- by,
- bypast,
- dated,
- dead,
- dead and buried,
- deceased,
- defunct,
- departed,
- elapsed,
- erstwhile,
- expired,
- extinct,
- finished,
- forgotten,
- former,
- gone,
- gone glimmering,
- gone-by,
- has-been,
- irrecoverable,
- lapsed,
- late,
- lost,
- no more,
- obsolete,
- of old,
- of yore,
- old,
- old-time,
- old-timey,
- olden,
- oldfangled,
- once,
- onetime,
- out-of-date,
- over,
- passe,
- passed,
- passed away,
- past,
- quondam,
- run out,
- sometime,
- vanished,
- whilom,
- wound up