Wordswarms From Years Past
Adjacent Wordsbye-
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bygone definitions
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]
adjective Date: 15th century gone by ; past <bygone days>; especially outmoded <bygone styles> • bygone noun
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.
(bygones) 1. Bygone means happening or existing a very long time ago. The book recalls other memories of a bygone age. ...bygone generations. = past ADJ: ADJ n 2. If two people let bygones be bygones, they decide to forget about unpleasant things that have happened between them in the past. PHRASE
a. Past, gone by.
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