"quondam" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "Latin quondam",
      "name": "bor"
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        "2": "whilom"
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      "expansion": "whilom",
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin quondam. Compare whilom.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "quondamly"
        },
        {
          "word": "quondamship"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1789, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to James Madison, 28 March, in The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections 1788–1790, vol. 1, ed. Merrill Jensen and Robert A. Becker, University of Wisconsin Press, 1976, page 217",
          "text": "Present him if you please in my name to [John] Henry, [William] Grayson and all our quondam acquaintances and be assured that any civilities he receives from you will be gratefully remembered by me."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 8, in The Whisperer in Darkness",
          "text": "For the sleeper on the couch was not Akeley at all, but my quondam guide Noyes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 September 1, A. O. Scott, “‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Review: Where to Begin?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "A few hundred pages after faintly praising me […] the book’s narrator (a quondam critic with nothing nice to say about Charlie Kaufman) challenges me to a barroom argument about cinema.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Former; once; at one time."
      ],
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        "(formal) Former; once; at one time."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "erstwhile"
        },
        {
          "word": "former"
        }
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      "tags": [
        "formal",
        "not-comparable"
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "bivš",
          "sense": "former",
          "word": "бивш"
        },
        {
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "njakogašen",
          "sense": "former",
          "word": "някогашен"
        },
        {
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "q̇opili",
          "sense": "former",
          "word": "ყოფილი"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "former",
          "word": "forhenværende"
        },
        {
          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "former",
          "word": "tidligere"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "bývšij",
          "sense": "former",
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            "masculine"
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          "word": "бы́вший"
        },
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "former",
          "word": "otrora"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "former",
          "word": "antaño"
        },
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          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "former",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "antiguo"
        }
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkwɒndəm/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒndəm"
    }
  ],
  "word": "quondam"
}

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    {
      "word": "quondamly"
    },
    {
      "word": "quondamship"
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      "name": "bor"
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      "expansion": "whilom",
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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin quondam. Compare whilom.",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1789, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney to James Madison, 28 March, in The Documentary History of the First Federal Elections 1788–1790, vol. 1, ed. Merrill Jensen and Robert A. Becker, University of Wisconsin Press, 1976, page 217",
          "text": "Present him if you please in my name to [John] Henry, [William] Grayson and all our quondam acquaintances and be assured that any civilities he receives from you will be gratefully remembered by me."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1931, H. P. Lovecraft, chapter 8, in The Whisperer in Darkness",
          "text": "For the sleeper on the couch was not Akeley at all, but my quondam guide Noyes.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2020 September 1, A. O. Scott, “‘I’m Thinking of Ending Things’ Review: Where to Begin?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "text": "A few hundred pages after faintly praising me […] the book’s narrator (a quondam critic with nothing nice to say about Charlie Kaufman) challenges me to a barroom argument about cinema.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "Former; once; at one time."
      ],
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        "(formal) Former; once; at one time."
      ],
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          "word": "erstwhile"
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        {
          "word": "former"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "formal",
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      ]
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈkwɒndəm/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɒndəm"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
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      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "bivš",
      "sense": "former",
      "word": "бивш"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "njakogašen",
      "sense": "former",
      "word": "някогашен"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "q̇opili",
      "sense": "former",
      "word": "ყოფილი"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "former",
      "word": "forhenværende"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "former",
      "word": "tidligere"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "bývšij",
      "sense": "former",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "бы́вший"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "former",
      "word": "otrora"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "former",
      "word": "antaño"
    },
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "former",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "antiguo"
    }
  ],
  "word": "quondam"
}