PAST meaning: Time period before the present

We found 35 dictionaries that define the word past:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

past, the past: Merriam-Webster.com
past, the past: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
past: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
past, the past: Collins English Dictionary
past: Vocabulary.com
Past, past: Wordnik
past: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
past: Wiktionary
past: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
past: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
past: Infoplease Dictionary
Past, past, the past: Dictionary.com
past (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
past: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
PAST (Poland), Past (Aitken), Past, The Past (Sevendust song), The Past: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Past: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
past: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
past: Rhymezone
past: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
past: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
past: Free Dictionary
past: Mnemonic Dictionary
past: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
past: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)

past: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

past: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

past: Sound Alike Words

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)

Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
PAST: Acronym Finder
PAST: Masonic Dictionary
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
past: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

past: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
▸ noun:  (grammar) The past tense.
▸ adjective:  Having already happened; in the past; finished.
▸ adjective:  (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
▸ adjective:  Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
▸ adjective:  (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
▸ adverb:  In a direction that passes.

Similar:

bygone, quondam, bypast, yore, erstwhile, yesteryear, agone, recent, foregone, former, more...

Opposite:

future, forthcoming, subsequent, upcoming, ahead

Types:

ancient, medieval, modern, contemporary, prehistoric, more...

Phrases:

the past, past tense, half past, get past, past life, more...

Adjectives:

recent, distant, long, own, remote, immediate, glorious, historical, colonial, dead, ancient

Colors:

sepia, antique white, old gold, rust, parchment, ivory

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