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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]
2: dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend" [syn: asleep, at peace, at rest, deceased, departed, gone] n
1: someone who is no longer alive; "I wonder what the dead person would have done" [syn: dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 14th century 1. bygone <departed days> 2. having died especially recently <mourning our departed friend> Synonyms: see dead

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. --adj. bygone (departed greatness). --n. (prec. by the) euphem. a particular dead person or dead people (we are here to mourn the departed).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Depart De*part", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Departed; p. pr. & vb. n. Departing.] [OE. departen to divide, part, depart, F. d['e]partir to divide, distribute, se d['e]partir to separate one's self, depart; pref. d['e]- (L. de) + partir to part, depart, fr. L. partire, partiri, to divide, fr. pars part. See Part.] 1. To part; to divide; to separate. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from a place or a person; to withdraw; -- opposed to arrive; -- often with from before the place, person, or thing left, and for or to before the destination. I will depart to mine own land. --Num. x. 30. Ere thou from hence depart. --Milton. He which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him depart. --Shak. 3. To forsake; to abandon; to desist or deviate (from); not to adhere to; -- with from; as, we can not depart from our rules; to depart from a title or defense in legal pleading. If the plan of the convention be found to depart from republican principles. --Madison. 4. To pass away; to perish. The glory is departed from Israel. --1 Sam. iv. 21. 5. To quit this world; to die. Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace. --Luke ii. 29. To depart with, to resign; to part with. [Obs.] --Shak.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Departed friends or relatives are people who have died. (FORMAL) ...departed friends. ADJ: usu ADJ n • The departed are people who have died. We held services for the departed. = deceased N-PLURAL: the N

Moby Thesaurus

absconded, absent, ago, antiquated, antique, ashes, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, away, bereft of life, blown over, body, bones, breathless, by, bygone, bypast, cadaver, called home, carcass, carrion, clay, cold, corpse, corpus delicti, croaked, crowbait, dated, dead, dead and buried, dead and gone, dead body, dead man, dead person, death-struck, deceased, decedent, defunct, deleted, demised, departed this life, destitute of life, disappeared, done for, dry bones, dust, earth, elapsed, embalmed corpse, exanimate, expired, extinct, fallen, finished, food for worms, forgotten, gone, gone away, gone glimmering, gone off, gone to glory, gone west, gone-by, has-been, inanimate, irrecoverable, lacking, lapsed, late, late lamented, launched into eternity, left, lifeless, lost, martyred, missing, mortal remains, mummification, mummy, no longer present, no more, nonattendant, nonexistent, not found, not present, obsolete, omitted, organic remains, out of sight, over, passe, passed, passed away, passed on, past, pushing up daisies, released, relics, reliquiae, remains, reposing, resting easy, run out, sainted, skeleton, sleeping, smitten with death, stiff, still, stillborn, subtracted, taken away, taken off, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, vanished, wanting, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, wound up