'Past' definitions:
Definition of 'past'
From: WordNet
adverb
So as to pass a given point; "every hour a train goes past" [syn: by, past]
adjective
Earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" [ant: future, present(a)]
adjective
Of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board" [syn: past(a), preceding(a), retiring(a)]
noun
The time that has elapsed; "forget the past" [syn: past, past times, yesteryear] [ant: future, futurity, hereafter, time to come]
noun
A earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate's past"
noun
A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past [syn: past, past tense]
Definition of 'Past'
From: GCIDE
- Past \Past\, a. [From Pass, v.] Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences. "Past ages." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Past master. See under Master. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Past'
From: GCIDE
- Past \Past\, n. A former time or state; a state of things gone by. "The past, at least, is secure." --D. Webster. [1913 Webster]
- The present is only intelligible in the light of the past, often a very remote past indeed. --Trench. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Past'
From: GCIDE
- Past \Past\, prep.
- 1. Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of. "Who being past feeling." --Eph. iv. 19. "Galled past endurance." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Until we be past thy borders. --Num. xxi. 22. [1913 Webster]
- Love, when once past government, is consequently past shame. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour. [1913 Webster]
- Is it not past two o'clock? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Above; exceeding; more than. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Not past three quarters of a mile. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Bows not past three quarters of a yard long. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Past'
From: GCIDE
- Past \Past\ (p[.a]st), adv. By; beyond; as, he ran past. [1913 Webster]
- The alarum of drums swept past. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'past'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- above,
- above and beyond,
- across,
- after,
- ago,
- ancient,
- antecedent,
- anterior,
- antiquated,
- antique,
- antiquity,
- aorist,
- aoristic,
- background,
- before,
- behind,
- beyond,
- biography,
- blown over,
- by,
- bygone,
- bygone days,
- bypast,
- career,
- chronology,
- close by,
- continuity,
- dated,
- days beyond recall,
- days gone by,
- days of old,
- days of yore,
- dead,
- dead and buried,
- dead and gone,
- deceased,
- defunct,
- departed,
- disused,
- done,
- duration,
- durative,
- duree,
- early,
- elapsed,
- erstwhile,
- existence,
- expired,
- extinct,
- finished,
- fore,
- foregoing,
- foretime,
- forgotten,
- former,
- former times,
- future,
- future perfect,
- gone,
- gone glimmering,
- gone out,
- gone-by,
- has-been,
- heretofore,
- historical present,
- history,
- immemorial,
- imperfect,
- in excess of,
- irrecoverable,
- lang syne,
- lapsed,
- last,
- lastingness,
- late,
- later than,
- life,
- lifetime,
- nearby,
- no more,
- obsolete,
- old,
- old times,
- olden,
- olden times,
- on,
- once,
- onetime,
- out,
- out of style,
- out of use,
- outside,
- outworn,
- over,
- over and above,
- passe,
- passed,
- passed away,
- past perfect,
- perfect,
- perfective,
- period,
- pluperfect,
- point tense,
- precedent,
- prehistoric,
- present,
- present perfect,
- preterit,
- preteritive,
- previous,
- primeval,
- primitive,
- prior,
- progressive tense,
- psychological time,
- quondam,
- recent,
- run out,
- since,
- sometime,
- space,
- space-time,
- subsequent to,
- tense,
- term,
- the future,
- the past,
- the present,
- then,
- tide,
- time,
- timebinding,
- too deep for,
- vanished,
- while,
- whilom,
- without,
- wound up,
- yesterday,
- yesteryear,
- yore
Words containing 'Past'
- Paste,
- Pasted,
- Pasting,
- pastness,
- By-past,
- German paste,
- Jujube paste,
- London paste,
- Past expression,
- Past master,
- Past question,
- Paste eel,
- Vienna paste,
- alimentary paste,
- anchovy paste,
- go past,
- library paste,
- past due,
- past participle,
- past perfect,
- past progressive,
- past tense,
- past times,
- paste-up,
- pouf paste,
- puff paste,
- tomato paste,
- Distributing past office,
- dead hand of the past,
- past perfect tense,
- past progressive tense