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Past

adjective
1.
Earlier than the present time; no longer current.  "His youth is past" , "This past Thursday" , "The past year"
2.
Of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office.  Synonyms: preceding, retiring.
noun
1.
The time that has elapsed.  Synonyms: past times, yesteryear.
2.
A earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret).
3.
A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past.  Synonym: past tense.
adverb
1.
So as to pass a given point.  Synonym: by.



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"Past" Quotes from Famous Books



... and shook her head, but her foot continued to pat the time, and her eyes followed the swaying couples that swung past. ...
— A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill • Alice Hegan Rice
... orioles tempt me with their song to stray beneath the flowering trees; In vain the grasses lure me by their colour to sit beside the pond. There is one thing and one alone I never tire of watching— The spring river as it trickles over the stones and babbles past the rocks. ...
— More Translations from the Chinese • Various
... poem. He wrote symphonies and a "symphoniette" on Russian themes, but his genius is best displayed in freer forms. His third symphony, redolent of Haydn, with a delightful scherzo, his fugues, quartet, ballets, operas—he composed fifteen, some of which are still popular in Russia—prove him a past master in his technical medium; but the real engaging and fantastic personality of the man evaporates in his academic work. He is at his top notch in Sadko, with its depiction of both a calm and stormy sea; ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker
... it plastered over with curls. It was said that in rage it turned green. But who knows? It was also said that Josie Drew's correct name was Josie Rosalsky. But again who knows? Her past was vivid with the heat lightning of the sharp storms of men's lives. At nineteen she had worn in public restaurants a star-sapphire necklace, originally designed by a soap magnate for his wife, ...
— The Vertical City • Fannie Hurst
... at, and so we returned immediately into the city by coach, and at the Mitre in Cheapside there light and drank, and then yet her at her uncle's in the Old Jewry. And so he and I back again thither, and drank till past 12 at night, till I had drank something too much. He all the while telling me his intention to get a girl who is worth L1000, and many times we had her sister Betty's health, whose memory I love. At last parted, and I well ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys


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