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Past - definition of past by The Free Dictionary Past - definition of past by The Free Dictionary https://www.thefreedictionary.com/past Printer Friendly past Also found in: Thesaurus , Acronyms , Idioms , Encyclopedia , Wikipedia . Related to past: past perfect , Past life past no longer current: the account is past due; formerly: a past president Not to be confused with: passed – gone beyond; happened: and so it passed; moved on; died: The old man has passed on. Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree Copyright © 2007, 2013 by Mary Embree past (păst) adj. 1. No longer current; gone by; over: His youth is past. 2. Having existed or occurred in an earlier time; bygone: past events; in years past. 3. a. Earlier than the present time; ago: 40 years past. b. Just gone by or elapsed: in the past few days. 4. Having served formerly in a given capacity, especially an official one: a past president; a past inmate of a cell. 5. Grammar Of, relating to, or being a verb tense or form used to express an action or condition prior to the time it is expressed. n. 1. The time before the present. 2. a. Previous background, career, experiences, and activities: an elderly person with a distinguished past. b. A former period of someone's life kept secret or thought to be shameful: a family with a checkered past. 3. Grammar a. The past tense. b. A verb form in the past tense. adv. So as to pass by or go beyond: He waved as he walked past. prep. 1. Beyond in time; later than or after: past midnight; a quarter past two. 2. Beyond in position; farther than: The house is a mile past the first stoplight. They walked past the memorial in silence. 3. a. Beyond the power, scope, extent, or influence of: The problem is past the point of resolution. b. Beyond in development or appropriateness: The child is past drinking from a bottle. You're past sucking your thumb, so don't do it. 4. Beyond the number or amount of: The child couldn't count past 20. See Usage Note at pass . [Middle English, from past participle of passen , to pass ; see pass .] past′ness n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. past ( pɑːst ) adj 1. completed, finished, and no longer in existence: past happiness . 2. denoting or belonging to all or a segment of the time that has elapsed at the present moment: the past history of the world . 3. denoting a specific unit of time that immediately precedes the present one: the past month . 4. ( prenominal ) denoting a person who has held and relinquished an office or position; former: a past president . 5. (Grammar) grammar denoting any of various tenses of verbs that are used in describing actions, events, or states that have been begun or completed at the time of utterance. Compare aorist , imperfect 4 , perfect 8 n 6. the past the period of time or a segment of it that has elapsed: forget the past . 7. the history, experience, or background of a nation, person, etc: a soldier with a distinguished past . 8. an earlier period of someone's life, esp one that contains events kept secret or regarded as disreputable 9. (Grammar) grammar a. a past tense b. a verb in a past tense adv 10. at a specified or unspecified time before the present; ago: three years past . 11. on or onwards: I greeted him but he just walked past . prep 12. beyond in time: it's past midnight . 13. beyond in place or position: the library is past the church . 14. moving beyond; in a direction that passes: he walked past me . 15. beyond or above the reach, limit, or scope of: his foolishness is past comprehension . 16. beyond or above in number or amount: to count past ten . 17. past it informal unable to perform the tasks one could do when one was younger 18. not put it past someone to consider someone capable of (the action specified) [C14: from passed, past participle of pass] Usage: The past participle of pass is sometimes wrongly spelt past: the time for recriminations has passed (not past ) Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014 past (pæst, pɑst) adj. 1. gone by or elapsed in time: The bad times are past now. 2. of, having existed in, or having occurred during a previous time; bygone: past glories. 3. gone by just before the present time; just passed: the past year. 4. ago: six days past. 5. having formerly been or served as; previous; earlier: past presidents. 6. of, pertaining to, or being a verb tense or form referring to events or states in times gone by. n. 7. the time gone by: far back in the past. 8. the history of a person, nation, etc.: a glorious past. 9. what has existed or happened at some earlier time: to learn from the past. 10. an earlier period of a person's life, career, etc., that is characterized by imprudent or immoral conduct. 11. a. the past tense. b. a form in the past tense, as looked or ate. adv. 12. so as to pass by or beyond; by: The troops marched past. prep. 13. beyond in time; later than; after: past noon. 14. beyond in space or position; farther on than: the house just past the church. 15. in a direction so as to pass by or go beyond: We went past the house by mistake. 16. beyond in amount, number, etc.; over: past the maximum age. 17. beyond the reach, scope, influence, or power of: past hope. [1250–1300; Middle English; variant sp. of passed, past participle of pass ] Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. Past See also antiquity ; future ; history ; memory ; origins . aboriginality the condition of being first in a place and of having a relatively simple nature. — aboriginal, n., adj. antediluvianism adherence to or fondness for ancient things or customs. — antediluvian, n., adj. antiquarianism interest in the culture of antiquity, especially that of classical Greece and Rome. — antiquary, antiquarian, n. — antiquarian, adj. archaeolatry devotion to archaism. — archaeolater, n. — archaeolatrous, adj. archaism an inclination toward old-fashioned things, speech, etc. Also archaicism. — archaist, n. — archaic, adj. chronographer a person who records time or the events that have occurred in time. chronography Obsolete, the recording or study of past events. medievalism strong fondness or admiration for the culture, mores, etc, of the Middle Ages. — medievalist, n. — medievalistic, adj. paleology , palaeology the study of antiquities. — paleologist, palaeologist, n. — paleologic, palaeologic, paleological, palaeological, adj. paleopathology , palaeopathology Medicine. the study of diseases from former times as found in fossils and mummified remains. paletiology , palaetiology an explanation of events of the past through the laws of causation. — paletiologist, palaetiologist, n. — paletiological, palaetiological, adj. papyrology the study of papyrus manuscripts. — papyrologist, n. — papyrological, adj. philarchaist Obsolete, one devoted to the archaic. — philarchaic, adj. -Ologies & -Isms. Copyright 2008 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved. past Past can be a noun or adjective referring to a period of time before the present. He never discussed his past . I've spent most of the past eight years looking after children. 1. telling the time In British English, when you are telling the time, you use past to say how many minutes it is after a particular hour. It's ten past five. I slept until quarter past ten. American speakers also say after . It's ten after five. I arrived around a quarter after twelve. 2. going near something Past is also used as a preposition or adverb to say that someone goes near something when they are moving in a particular direction. He walked past the school. People ran past laughing. 3. 'passed' Don't use 'past' as the past tense or -ed participle of the verb pass . Use passed . As she passed the library door, the telephone began to ring. A new law was passed by Parliament. Collins COBUILD English Usage © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 2004, 2011, 2012 Thesaurus Antonyms Related Words Synonyms Legend: Switch to new thesaurus Noun 1. past - the time that has elapsed; "forget the past" past times , yesteryear time - the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past yore - time long past bygone , water under the bridge - past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones" old - past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old') history - the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history" time immemorial , time out of mind - the distant past beyond memory auld langsyne , good old days , langsyne , old times - past times remembered with nostalgia yesterday - the recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays" future , futurity , time to come , hereafter - the time yet to come 2. past - a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate's past" period , period of time , time period - an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period" life - the period between birth and the present time; "I have known him all his life" 3. past - a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past past tense tense - a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time preterit , preterite - a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense Adj. 1. past - earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" noncurrent - not current or belonging to the present time outgoing - leaving a place or a position; "an outgoing steamship" old - of long duration; not new; "old tradit