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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

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

Oxford Reference Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(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

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Past, gone by.

Moby Thesaurus

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lapsed, late, lost, no more, obsolete, of old, of yore, old, old-time, old-timey, olden, oldfangled, once, onetime, out-of-date, over, passe, passed, passed away, past, quondam, run out, sometime, vanished, whilom, wound up





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