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PAST TIMES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does past times mean? 

PAST TIMES (noun)
  The noun PAST TIMES has 1 sense:

1. the time that has elapsedplay

  Familiarity information: PAST TIMES used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PAST TIMES (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The time that has elapsed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

past; past times; yesteryear

Context example:

forget the past

Hypernyms ("past times" is a kind of...):

time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "past times"):

yore (time long past)

bygone; water under the bridge (past events to be put aside)

old (past times (especially in the phrase 'in days of old'))

history (the aggregate of past events)

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)


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