ALL meanings of past
past
P p - adjective past gone by or elapsed in time: It was a bad time, but it's all past now. 1
- adjective past of, having existed in, or having occurred during a time previous to the present; bygone: the past glories of the Incas. 1
- adjective past gone by just before the present time; just passed: during the past year. 1
- adjective past ago: six days past. 1
- adjective past having formerly been or served as; previous; earlier: three past presidents of the club. 1
- adjective past Grammar. designating a tense, or other verb formation or construction, that refers to events or states in time gone by. 1
- noun past the time gone by: He could remember events far back in the past. 1
- noun past the history of a person, nation, etc.: our country's glorious past. 1
- noun past what has existed or has happened at some earlier time: Try to forget the past, now that your troubles are over. 1
- noun past the events, phenomena, conditions, etc., that characterized an earlier historical period: That hat is something out of the past. 1
- noun past an earlier period of a person's life, career, etc., that is thought to be of a shameful or embarrassing nature: When he left prison, he put his past behind him. 1
- noun past Grammar. the past tense, as he ate, he smoked. another verb formation or construction with past meaning. a form in the past tense. 1
- adverb past so as to pass by or beyond; by: The troops marched past. 1
- preposition past beyond in time; later than; after: past noon; half past six. 1
- preposition past beyond in space or position; farther on than: the house just past the church. 1
- preposition past in a direction so as to pass by or go beyond: We went past the house by mistake. 1
- preposition past beyond in amount, number, etc.: past the maximum age for enlisting in the army. 1
- preposition past beyond the reach, scope, influence, or power of: He is past hope of recovery. 1
- preposition past beyond in position 1
- preposition past beyond in number 1
- noun past time gone by 1
- noun past grammar: past tense 1
- abbreviation PAST previous 1
- adjective past done, over 1
- adjective past former 1
- adjective past recent 1
- adjective past ago 1
- adjective past grammar 1
- adverb past by 1
- noun past background 1
- noun past personal history 1
- preposition past time: after 1
- preposition past beyond 1
- preposition past no longer able to 1
- singular noun past The past is the time before the present, and the things that have happened. 0
- countable noun past Your past consists of all the things that you have done or that have happened to you. 0
- adjective past Past events and things happened or existed before the present time. 0
- adjective past Past is also used after periods of time. 0
- adjective past You use past to talk about a period of time that has just finished. For example, if you talk about the past five years, you mean the period of five years that has just finished. 0
- adjective past If a situation is past, it has ended and no longer exists. 0
- adjective past In grammar, the past tenses of a verb are the ones used to talk about things that happened at some time before the present. The simple past tense uses the past form of a verb, which for regular verbs ends in '-ed', as in 'They walked back to the car'. 0
- preposition past You use past when you are stating a time which is thirty minutes or less after a particular hour. For example, if it is twenty past six, it is twenty minutes after six o'clock. 0
- preposition past Past is also an adverb. 0
- preposition past If it is past a particular time, it is later than that time. 0
- preposition past If you go past someone or something, you go near them and keep moving, so that they are then behind you. 0
- preposition past If you look or point past a person or thing, you look or point at something behind them. 0
- preposition past If something is past a place, it is on the other side of it. 0
- preposition past If someone or something is past a particular point or stage, they are no longer at that point or stage. 0
- preposition past If you are past doing something, you are no longer able to do it. For example, if you are past caring, you do not care about something any more because so many bad things have happened to you. 0
- adjective past completed, finished, and no longer in existence 0