'Quondam' definitions:
Definition of 'quondam'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover" [syn: erstwhile(a), former(a), old, onetime(a), one-time(a), quondam(a), sometime(a)]
Definition of 'Quondam'
From: GCIDE
- Quondam \Quon"dam\, n. A person dismissed or ejected from a position. [R.] "Make them quondams; . . . cast them out of their office." --Latimer. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Quondam'
From: GCIDE
- Quondam \Quon"dam\ (kw[o^]n"d[a^]m), a. [L., formerly.] Having been formerly; former; sometime. "This is the quondam king." --Shak. [1913 Webster]