PAST

PAST

The past is the totality of events which occurred before a given point in time. Past or PAST may also refer to:

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past

Noun

  1. 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
  2. The past tense.

Adjective

  1. Having already happened; in the past; finished.
  2. Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.
  3. Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.
  4. Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.

Adverb

  1. in a direction that passes
    I watched him walk past


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