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bygone

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by·gone  (bgôn, -gn)
adj.
Gone by; past: bygone days.
n.
One, especially a grievance, that is past: Let bygones be bygones.

bygone
Adjective
past; former: a bygone age
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.bygone - past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones"
past, past times, yesteryear - the time that has elapsed; "forget the past"
Adj.1.bygone - well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era"
past - earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year"

bygone
adjective past, former, previous, lost, forgotten, ancient, of old, one-time, departed, extinct, gone by, erstwhile, antiquated, of yore, olden, past recall, sunk in oblivion << OPPOSITE future
Translations
bygone [ˈbaɪgɔn] adjpasado, del pasado
n let bygones be bygones → lo pasado, pasado está
bygone [ˈbaɪgɔn] adjpassé(e)
n let bygones be bygones → passons l'éponge, oublions le passé
bygone [ˈbaɪgɔn] adj(längst) vergangen
n let bygones be bygones → wir sollten die Vergangenheit ruhen lassen
bygone [ˈbaɪgɔn] adjpassato/a
n let bygones be bygones → mettiamoci una pietra sopra


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There are no words to describe her save the old ones that have served so often to picture the bygone heroine of romance and the fair lady of our dreams.
At home, however, all will look bright and bustling as we children are set to shell peas or poppies, and the damp twigs crackle in the stove, and our mother comes to look fondly at our work, and our old nurse, Iliana, tells us stories of bygone days, or terrible legends concerning wizards and dead men.
In the last years of my father's life I had traveled with him in Italy, and I had seen in the Museum at Naples the wonderful relics of a bygone time discovered among the ruins of Pompeii.
 
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