8 definitions found for bygone

bygone adj 1: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone] n 1: past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones" [syn: bygone, water under the bridge]

bygone adjective Date: 15th century gone by ; past <bygone days>; especially outmoded <bygone styles> • bygone noun

bygone
adj. & n.
--adj. past, antiquated (bygone years).
--n. (in pl.) past offences (let bygones be bygones).

Bygone By"gone` (b[imac]"g[o^]n`; 115), a. Past; gone by. ``Bygone fooleries.'' --Shak.

Bygone By"gone`, n. Something gone by or past; a past event. ``Let old bygones be'' --Tennyson. Let bygones be bygones, let the past be forgotten.

bygone a. Past, gone by.

bygone ˈbaɪɡɔn adj. past, former, olden; of old, of yore: In bygone times, the fashion was for high-button shoes.

52 Moby Thesaurus words for "bygone": ago, antiquated, antique, archaic, belated, blown over, by, bypast, dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, departed, elapsed, erstwhile, expired, extinct, finished, forgotten, former, gone, gone glimmering, gone-by, has-been, irrecoverable, lapsed, late, lost, no more, obsolete, of old, of yore, old, old-time, old-timey, olden, oldfangled, once, onetime, out-of-date, over, passe, passed, passed away, past, quondam, run out, sometime, vanished, whilom, wound up