past

past
adjective
1》 gone by in time and no longer existing.
    ↘recently elapsed: the past twelve months.
2》 Grammar (of a tense) expressing a past action or state.
noun
1》 (usu. the past) a past period or the events in it.
    ↘a person's or thing's history or earlier life: the country's colourful past.
2》 Grammar a past tense or form of a verb.
preposition
1》 to or on the further side of.
2》 in front of or from one side to the other of.
3》 beyond in time; later than.
4》 no longer capable of.
5》 beyond the scope of.
adverb
1》 so as to pass from one side of something to the other.
2》 used to indicate the passage of time: a week went past.
Phrases
not put it past someone believe someone to be capable of doing something wrong or rash.
past it informal too old to be any good at anything.
Derivatives
pastness noun
Origin
ME: var. of passed, past participle of pass1.

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