past
IPA: pˈæst
noun
- The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
- (grammar) The past tense.
adjective
- Having already happened; in the past; finished.
- (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
- Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
- (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
adverb
- In a direction that passes.
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Examples of "past" in Sentences
- It is a time to reminisce the past.
- Most of the time, I skipped in the past.
- I jog past the memorial there all the time.
- He always broods about the past and the old friends.
- The cruelty of the old pharaoh is a thing of the past.
- The old shops give a glimpse of the rich aura of the past.
- This will be a time of repentance for the sins of the past.
- The time of political blackmails and briberies is in the past, and gone.
- But though Christ tarries past our time, he will not tarry past the due time.
- A pyromaniac is coming from past to menace the old members of a firemen squad.
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