Meaning of BYGONE
| Pronunciation: | | 'bI`gon
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- [n] past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones"
- [adj] well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era"
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| | Synonyms: | | bypast, departed, foregone, gone, past, water under the bridge |
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| | See Also: | | past, past times, yesteryear, yore | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\By"gone`\ (b[imac]"g[o^]n`; 115), a.
Past; gone by. ``Bygone fooleries.'' --Shak.
\By"gone`\, n.
Something gone by or past; a past event. ``Let old bygones
be'' --Tennyson.
{Let bygones be bygones}, let the past be forgotten.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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lapsed, late, lost, no more, obsolete, of old, of yore, old, olden, oldfangled, old-time, old-timey, once, onetime, out-of-date, over, passe, passed, passed away, past, quondam, run out, sometime, vanished, whilom, wound up |
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