past

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The time that has already happened, before now.

   She likes to talk about the past and how life used to be.

2. 2
   adj

   Just finished or recently gone by.

   It has rained every day during the past week.

3. 3
   adj

   Belonging to an earlier time; no longer happening.

   He often thinks about past glories from his youth.

4. 4
   adv

   So as to move from one side of something to the other and beyond it.

   A train goes past every hour.

5. 5
   noun

   An earlier part of someone's life, especially one they want to keep secret.

   Reporters dug into the candidate's past.

From Middle English passed, past participle of passen (“to pass, to go by”), whence Modern English pass.

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