past6 definitions found past - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : 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] 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] 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] Past \Past\ (p[.a]st), adv. By; beyond; as, he ran past. [1913 Webster] The alarum of drums swept past. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster] past - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) : past adv 1: so as to pass a given point; "every hour a train goes past" [syn: by, past] adj 1: earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" [ant: future, present(a)] 2: of a person who has held and relinquished a position or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)] n 1: the time that has elapsed; "forget the past" [syn: past, past times, yesteryear] [ant: future, futurity, hereafter, time to come] 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 [syn: past, past tense] past - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : 142 Moby Thesaurus words for "past": 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 |