bygone

bygone is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 22 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

1.Past; gone by. "Bygone fooleries." Shak
2.Something gone by or past; a past event. "Let old bygones be" Tennyson. Let bygones be bygones, let the past be forgotten.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

Synonyms

Related terms (Roget's 1911)

Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).

Reverse-dictionary questions

Definition-first questions whose answer is bygone.

What is something gone by or past; a past event. "Let old bygones be" Tennyson. Let bygones be bygones, let the past be forgotten called?

Sources

Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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