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past times

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Noun1.past times - the time that has elapsed; "forget the past"
past, yesteryear
time - the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
yore - time long past
bygone, water under the bridge - past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones"
old - past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
history - the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history"
time immemorial, time out of mind - the distant past beyond memory
auld langsyne, good old days, langsyne, old times - past times remembered with nostalgia
yesterday - the recent past; "yesterday's solutions are not good enough"; "we shared many yesterdays"


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Laurence, so vivid was his conception of past times, would hardly have deemed it strange if its former occupants, one after another, had resumed the seat which they had each left vacant such a dim length of years ago.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
In past times when my wife plagued me; in present times when I have had a drop too much--ROBINSON CRUSOE.
The Moonstone by Collins, Wilkie View in context
My thoughts are beginning to drift back to past times, and to things which are better forgotten.
Man And Wife by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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