(n): the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
(n): a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret)
(n): an amount of time
(n): a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
(n): a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
(adj): vs. present) (vs. future) -- (earlier than the present time; no longer current
(adj): gone by; or in the past
(adj): belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire
(adj): well in the past; former
(adj): characteristic of the time of chivalry and knighthood in the Middle Ages
(adj): prenominal), former(prenominal), other(prenominal) -- (belonging to the distant past
(adj): prenominal), former(prenominal), old, onetime(prenominal), one-time(prenominal), quondam(prenominal), sometime(prenominal) -- (belonging to some prior time
(adj): prenominal), late(prenominal), previous(prenominal) -- ((used especially of persons) of the immediate past
(adj): belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past
(adj): prenominal) -- (immediately past
(adj): prenominal), recent -- (of the immediate past or just previous to the present time
(adj): long past
(adj): prenominal) -- (recently past
(adj): belonging to or existing in times before recorded history
(adj): prenominal) -- (at a specific prior time
(adj): in or of the month preceding the present one
(adj): prenominal), preceding(prenominal), retiring(prenominal) -- (of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office
(adj): vs. incoming) -- (leaving a place or a position
(adv): so as to pass a given point
A man with a past = a person who had an interesting life history
A woman with a past = a trollop
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