Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Gone by; past.
- noun One, especially a grievance, that is past.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Past; gone by; hence, out of date; antiquated: as, “thy bygone fooleries,”
- noun What is gone by and past: as, that is a bygone; let bygones be bygones; “let old bygones be,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Past; gone by.
- noun Something gone by or past; a past event.
- noun let the past be forgotten.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Having been or
happened in thefar past . - noun A
person oroccurrence that took place in the past.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective well in the past; former
- noun past events to be put aside
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Examples
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Today this is a hill near San Juanito Escobedo — locally known as Las Cuevas — but in bygone days this hill was actually an island in the middle of now-drained Lake Magdalena.
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I lived near to what was a major public order situation in bygone years, and found interestingly that despite the fact I had to commute through it several days running, not once was i harrassed, stopped or bothered by the police.
G20 police assault verdict SHOCK! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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Today this is a hill near San Juanito Escobedo — locally known as Las Cuevas — but in bygone days this hill was actually an island in the middle of now-drained Lake Magdalena.
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Today this is a hill near San Juanito Escobedo — locally known as Las Cuevas — but in bygone days this hill was actually an island in the middle of now-drained Lake Magdalena.
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The words used in bygone eras were not as sharp or short as they are now, and neither were the phrases.
Narrating the Brits in Time anthology — Fusion Despatches 2009
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Movies that employ wildly imagined inventions and anachronistic technology set in bygone eras can all fall under this name.
You’ve Been A Steampunk Movie Fan Forever, Whether You Knew It Or Not » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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What happened in bygone days was that on the day before Lent, the choir boys would take a large scroll with the word "ALLELUIA" on it and bury it outside the church - only to be dug up again after Easter has passed.
Lenten Motivation Francis 2006
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Poets, lyrists shaped our national consciousness and gave expression to our national aspirations in bygone times - and they are continuing to shape that consciousness to this very day.
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You are aware that in bygone ages, the world's noblest monuments, St. Denis in France, Westminster Abbey, and other repositories wherein the epics of nations shine eternally, were perfected not through mercenary toil, but mostly by the pious labours of the lowly, who thereby blended a portion of their drab, flitting existence with immortality.
Quebec Old and New 1944
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They are incredible, until one recalls the wars and plagues and the incredibly bad life in bygone ages.
The Social Order 1943
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