"the past" meaning in English

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Noun

  1. Tags: no-gloss Synonyms: days of yore [idiomatic], foreday [archaic, poetic], foretide, foretime, old days, past, yestertide, yestertime, yesteryear [poetic], yore [poetic] Hypernyms: time Holonyms: eternity Meronyms: bygone
    Sense id: en-the_past-en-noun-47DEQpj8 Hyponyms: days of wine and roses, golden age, good old days, halcyon days [idiomatic], bad old days, mists of time, ereyesterday, last night, the night before last, yester [archaic], yesterday, yestern, yestereve, yesterevening, yesternight, yestersol, yestreen [Scotland, archaic, poetic], antiquity, eld [archaic, poetic]
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "the future"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "the present"
        }
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          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "time"
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          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "golden age"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "good old days"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "tags": [
            "idiomatic"
          ],
          "word": "halcyon days"
        },
        {
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          "word": "bad old days"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "mists of time"
        },
        {
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          "word": "ereyesterday"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "last night"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "the night before last"
        },
        {
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          "tags": [
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          ],
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        },
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          "word": "yestern"
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        },
        {
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          "word": "yesternight"
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        {
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          "tags": [
            "archaic",
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          ],
          "word": "foreday"
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "foretide"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "foretime"
        },
        {
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          "word": "old days"
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          "word": "past"
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          "word": "yestertide"
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "the future"
        },
        {
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          "word": "the present"
        }
      ],
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        {
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        }
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        }
      ],
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          "word": "days of wine and roses"
        },
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          "word": "golden age"
        },
        {
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          "word": "good old days"
        },
        {
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          "tags": [
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          ],
          "word": "halcyon days"
        },
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          "word": "bad old days"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "mists of time"
        },
        {
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          "word": "ereyesterday"
        },
        {
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          "word": "last night"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "the night before last"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "tags": [
            "archaic"
          ],
          "word": "yester"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "yesterday"
        },
        {
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          "word": "yestern"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "yestereve"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "yesterevening"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "yesternight"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "yestersol"
        },
        {
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            "archaic",
            "poetic"
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        },
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          "word": "antiquity"
        },
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          "tags": [
            "archaic",
            "poetic"
          ],
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        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "tags": [
            "archaic",
            "poetic"
          ],
          "word": "foreday"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "foretide"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "foretime"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "old days"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "past"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "yestertide"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "word": "yestertime"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "tags": [
            "poetic"
          ],
          "word": "yesteryear"
        },
        {
          "source": "Thesaurus:the past",
          "tags": [
            "poetic"
          ],
          "word": "yore"
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