past
Meaning of past
verb
- To change place.
- To change in state or status
- To move through time.
- To be accepted.
- In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
- To do or be better.
- To take heed.
- 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
- (grammar) The past tense.
- Having already happened; in the past; finished.
past glories
- (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
- Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
during the past year
- (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.
past tense
- In a direction that passes.
I watched him walk past
- Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.
Ignore them, we'll play past them.
- Beyond in place, quantity or time.
count past twenty
- No longer capable of.
I'm past caring what he thinks of me.
- Having recovered or moved on from (a traumatic experience, etc.).
Information about past
- The plural form of past is: pasts.
- Languages in which past is used:
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Hyphenation of past
past
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- past is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
past synonyms
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Meaning :
spend, pledge, promise, vow, foretime, bygone, foregone
Translation of past
Anagrams of past
apts, pats, Ptas, spat, stap, taps
Words that rhyme with past
Past, apast, antepast, forepast, repast, compast, mainpast, nonpast, paulopast, appast, afterpast, overpast, antispast, neurospast, polyspast, trispast, bypast, flypast
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