Past

a.	1.	Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past troubles; past offences. Past master See under Master.
n.	1.	A former time or state; a state of things gone by. The present is only intelligible in the light of the past, often a very remote past indeed. - Trench.
prep.	1.	Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of. Until we be past thy borders. - Num. xxi. 22. Love, when once past government, is consequently past shame. - L'Estrange.
	2.	Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour. Is it not past two o'clock? - Shak.
	3.	Above; exceeding; more than. Not past three quarters of a mile. - Shak. Bows not past three quarters of a yard long. - Spenser.
adv.	1.	By; beyond; as, he ran past. The alarum of drums swept past. - Longfellow.

Noun	1.	past - the time that has elapsed; "forget the past" Synonyms: past times, yesteryear, yore Antonyms: future, futurity, time to come, hereafter - the time yet to come
	2.	past - a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate's past"
	3.	past - a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past Synonyms: past tense
Adj.	1.	past - earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" Antonyms: future - yet to be or coming; "some future historian will evaluate him" present - temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration; "the present leader"; "articles for present use"; "the present topic"; "the present system"; "present observations"
	2.	past - of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board" Synonyms: preceding, retiring
	3.	past - a verb tense or other construction referring to events or states that existed at some previous time; "past participle"
Adv.	1.	past - so as to pass a given point; "every hour a train goes past" Synonyms: by

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