past
∞
1.0
- noun
- /pæst/
:
pasado
- Historians study the past to learn how events have shaped our current society.
- forget the past
- things of the past
- memories of the past
Yeah, there are trolls of the past who were incredibly good.
- Yeah, there are trolls of the past who were incredibly good.
- When you're thinking of the past, where are you?
- Let's say it like this, the past brought you to the present.
- Or rather, better put, the past isn't in your eternity.
- And I'm sure that in the past there have been more.
- How, in short, has the wartime past been inscribed in sound?
- Because they are imprinting the past on the now still.
- What conversation have you had in the past and you needed this technique?
- I dive in the frozen waves where the past comes back to life.
- It understands what it's done in the past and so on.
Examples
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And this has actually been done in the past a few times.
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Today, however, many engineers are learning from the past and making amends for these mistakes.
Academic text (2012) -
And the people who were in the past got left behind.
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So we're going to talk about past, present, and future.
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Memory is not about the past, it's about the future.
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Let's say it like this, the past brought you to the present.
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One reason being that in the past wars had been short.
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Various people have worked on this problem in the past, so we are not beginning from scratch.
Academic text (2017) -
Zehra recalled, "In the past when I was a child, we did not sell it."
Academic text (2011) -
I know we didn't get along in the past, but he is very talented, very passionate.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
All past events related to a place, person, or group
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8.3
An earlier time people remember as better
A period in the past before now
Antonyms
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
How Distant
Surface Forms
Etymology
Past comes from the verb pass, which means 'to go by', so the past is what has 'gone by' or lies 'beyond' the present.