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past
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Meanings
adjective
  • gone by in time and no longer existing.
    E.g. the danger is now past
noun
  • the time before the moment of speaking or writing.
    E.g. she found it hard to make ends meet in the past
  • a past tense or form of a verb.
    E.g. a simple past of the first conjugation
preposition
  • to or on the further side of.
    E.g. he rode on past the crossroads
  • beyond in time; later than.
    E.g. by this time it was past 3.30
  • no longer capable of.
    E.g. he is past giving the best advice
adverb
  • so as to pass from one side of something to the other.
    E.g. a flotilla of glossy limousines swept past
  • used to indicate the lapse of time.
    E.g. a week went past and nothing changed

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