Word Direct Answers

What does "past" mean?

Past: Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of. "Who being past feeling." Eph. iv.

Additional senses

  1. 2."Galled past endurance." Macaulay. Until we be past thy borders. Num. xxi.
  2. 3.Love, when once past government, is consequently past shame. L'Estrange.
  3. 4.Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour. Is it not past two o'clock Shak.
  4. 5.Above; exceeding; more than. [R.] Not past three quarters of a mile. Shak. Bows not past three quarters of a yard long. Spenser.
  5. 6.By; beyond; as, he ran past. The alarum of drums swept past. Longfellow.

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