[syn: bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, gone]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bygone \By"gone`\ (b[imac]"g[o^]n`; 115), a.
Past; gone by. "Bygone fooleries." --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bygone \By"gone`\, n.
Something gone by or past; a past event. "Let old bygones be"
--Tennyson.
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Let bygones be bygones, let the past be forgotten.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bygone
adj 1: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of
foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers";
"relics of a departed era" [syn: bygone, bypast,
departed, foregone, gone]
n 1: past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones" [syn:
bygone, water under the bridge]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "bygone":
ago, antiquated, antique, archaic, belated, blown over, by, bypast,
dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, departed, elapsed,
erstwhile, expired, extinct, finished, forgotten, former, gone,
gone glimmering, gone-by, has-been, irrecoverable, lapsed, late,
lost, no more, obsolete, of old, of yore, old, old-time, old-timey,
olden, oldfangled, once, onetime, out-of-date, over, passe, passed,
passed away, past, quondam, run out, sometime, vanished, whilom,
wound up