Past

Noun

 * 1) The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
 * 2)  The past tense.

Derived terms

 * blast from the past
 * in the past
 * past anterior
 * past continuous
 * past historic
 * past participle


 * past perfect
 * past progressive
 * past simple
 * past tense
 * simple past

Adjective

 * 1) Having already happened; in the past; finished.
 * past glories
 * 1) Relating to the past.
 * past tense
 * 1) (of a period of time) the one before this one
 * during the past year

Adverb

 * 1) in a direction that passes
 * I watched him walk past

Preposition

 * 1) beyond in place, quantity or time
 * the room past mine
 * count past twenty
 * past Midnight

Adjectives for Past
romantic; sorrowful; vanished; voiceless; foolish; monstrous; accumulated; remote; wintry; complacent; immemorial; stormy; immeasurable; gracious; artificial; dim; scarred; remorseless; dark; sinful; mischievous; precious; turbulent; receding; spectral; mysterious; irrevocable; blighted.

Thesaurus
above, above and beyond, across, after, ago, ancient, antecedent, anterior, antiquated, antique, antiquity, aorist, aoristic, background, before, behind, beyond, biography, blown over, by, bygone, bygone days, bypast, career, chronology, close by, continuity, dated, days beyond recall, days gone by, days of old, days of yore, dead, dead and buried, dead and gone, deceased, defunct, departed, disused, done, duration, durative, duree, early, elapsed, erstwhile, existence, expired, extinct, finished, fore, foregoing, foretime, forgotten, former, former times, future, future perfect, gone, gone glimmering, gone out, gone-by, has-been, heretofore, historical present, history, immemorial, imperfect, in excess of, irrecoverable, lang syne, lapsed, last, lastingness, late, later than, life, lifetime, nearby, no more, obsolete, old, old times, olden, olden times, on, once, onetime, out, out of style, out of use, outside, outworn, over, over and above, passe, passed, passed away, past perfect, perfect, perfective, period, pluperfect, point tense, precedent, prehistoric, present, present perfect, preterit, preteritive, previous, primeval, primitive, prior, progressive tense, psychological time, quondam, recent, run out, since, sometime, space, space-time, subsequent to, tense, term, the future, the past, the present, then, tide, time, timebinding, too deep for, vanished, while, whilom, without, wound up, yesterday, yesteryear, yore

Etymology
From, past participle of passen:

Noun

 * Arabic: ماض,   الماضي
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: estinteco
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: अतीत
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:


 * Korean: 과거 (過去)
 * Maltese: ,
 * Norwegian: fortid
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: прошлое,
 * Serbian:
 * Slovene: preteklost
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: förflutna
 * Telugu: పూర్వం (poorvam), గతం (gatam)
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese: quá khứ (過去)


 * Arabic: ماض,   الماضي
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 過去時態, 过去时态 (guòqù shítài), 過去時, 过去时 (guòqùshí)
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 過去時制 (かこじせい, kako-jisei), 過去形 (かこけい, kakokei)
 * Korean: 과거형 (gwageohyeong)


 * Maltese:
 * Norwegian: preteritum
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: trecut
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: prošlo vreme
 * Slovene: preteklik
 * Spanish:
 * Telugu: గతించిన, జరిగిన, భూతకాలము
 * Turkish:

Adjective

 * Czech:
 * Dutch: voorbij, voorbije, afgelopen
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek: περασμένος (perazménos), παρελθών (parelthón) , πρότερος (próteros) , πρωτύτερος (protíteros) , τα περασμένα (ta perazména)
 * Italian:
 * Korean: 지나간 (jinagan)


 * Maltese: ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: trecut, trecută
 * Russian:
 * Serbian: prošli, prošla , próšlo
 * Telugu: పూర్వపు (poorvapu), జరిగింది
 * Turkish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: voorbij, voorbije, verleden
 * French:
 * Greek: παρελθοντικός (pareltho[n]dikós)
 * Italian:


 * Korean: 과거의 (gwageo-ui)
 * Romanian: (de/despre) trecut
 * Serbian: prošli, prošla , próšlo
 * Telugu: గతకాలం


 * Czech:
 * Dutch: voorbij, voorbije
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek: περασμένος (perazménos), παρελθών (parelthón) , πρώην (próin) , τέως (téos) , πρότερος (próteros) , πρωτύτερος (protíteros)


 * Korean: 이전의 (ijeon-ui)
 * Serbian: prošli, prošla , próšlo
 * Telugu: గత (gata)
 * Turkish: geçen, geçtiğimiz,  önceki

Adverb

 * Dutch:
 * Greek: επέκεινα (epécina), πέρα (péra)
 * Russian:


 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Telugu: పోయింది

Preposition

 * Dutch: ,
 * German:
 * Greek: πέρα (péra)
 * Irish:, i ndiaidh


 * Norwegian: forbi, bortenfor
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Telugu: వెనుక

Related terms

 * past master
 * past it

Anagrams

 * APTS, pats, spat, stap, taps

Noun
past f


 * 1) trap

Anagrams

 * spat, stap, taps

Noun
past f


 * 1) trap