past
/pæst/ noun A2- 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· 1830, Daniel Webster, a speech The past, at least, is secure.
- The past tense.
Plural pasts
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Hence it is that when she appears they look to her as knowing all things, while she no longer gives them advice, but in solitude laments their past folly.
A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings.
There he remained until past eleven at night.
When we got into the train at Charlottetown and the red roads began to flash past I asked Mrs.
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