past
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1.0
- adverb
- /pæst/
- Informal
:
por delante de
- The dog darted past me in pursuit of a squirrel.
- go past
- walk past
- fly past
Imagine I have another hour's gone past still no contact ring him.
- Imagine I have another hour's gone past still no contact ring him.
Examples
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Have you been waiting for someone to come past so you could tell that story?
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But I plan to live past today.
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Yeah, but once you got up past that, they had me.
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And the American people could not see past that block.
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Will you push past the pain, past the hurt?
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A group of guys were driving past in a car right through the middle of campus.
Academic text (2016) -
I left the house at twenty minutes past and spoke to one or two people.
Fiction book (1990) -
I put out all the lights in Leicester Square just by walking past.
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A crush of men crowded past, carrying what looked like a door.
Academic text (2012) -
We've been skating all morning and laughing and talking of memories past.
Synonyms
1
9.9
Used in old language to mean in front of someone or before a time
Idioms
- Informal
To think about things beyond your own immediate needs
Compounds
- Specialized
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2.7
A verb form that shows a finished action and is used with have or in passive sentences
- Specialized
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3.0
A verb tense that shows an action happened before another past action or time
- Specialized
A verb form for an action that finished before another past action
- Specialized
A verb form that shows an action happening at a certain time in the past
- Specialized
Shows an action that was happening at a certain time in the past
- Specialized
A verb form that shows an action or state happened and finished in the past
- Specialized
An ending or small change to a verb that shows it happened before now
Surface Forms
Etymology
The adverb past comes from the verb pass, meaning 'to go by', so when something goes past you it moves 'beyond' a point.