past

About 131.99 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.

   a book about a time machine that can transport people back into the past

2. noun The past tense.
3. adjective Having already happened; in the past; finished. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}

   past glories

4. adjective Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
5. adjective Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous. foregone, #:

   during the past year

6. adjective Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.

   past tense

7. adverb In a direction that passes.

   I watched him walk past.

8. preposition Beyond in place or quantity.

   the room past mine

Similar words

bypast foregone former erstwhile quondam ago previous bygone preceding earlier

Often followed by

and the few two year decade is experience three

Word family

pastless pasts