From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
past
adj 1: earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time
past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the
past year" [ant: {present(a)}, future]
2: of a person who has held and relinquished a position or
office; "a retiring member of the board" [syn: {past(a)},
{preceding(a)}, {retiring(a)}]
3: a verb tense or other construction referring to events or
states that existed at some previous time; "past
participle"
n 1: the time that has elapsed; "forget the past" [syn: {past
times}, yesteryear, yore] [ant: future]
2: a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they
have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the
candidate's past"
3: a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past
[syn: past tense]
adv : so as to pass a given point; "every hour a train goes past"
[syn: by]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Past \Past\, a. [From Pass, v.]
Of or pertaining to a former time or state; neither present
nor future; gone by; elapsed; ended; spent; as, past
troubles; past offences. "Past ages." --Milton.
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Past master. See under Master.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Past \Past\, n.
A former time or state; a state of things gone by. "The past,
at least, is secure." --D. Webster.
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The present is only intelligible in the light of the
past, often a very remote past indeed. --Trench.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Past \Past\, prep.
1. Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the
reach or influence of. "Who being past feeling." --Eph.
iv. 19. "Galled past endurance." --Macaulay.
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Until we be past thy borders. --Num. xxi.
22.
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Love, when once past government, is consequently
past shame. --L'Estrange.
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2. Beyond, in time; after; as, past the hour.
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Is it not past two o'clock? --Shak.
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3. Above; exceeding; more than. [R.]
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Not past three quarters of a mile. --Shak.
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Bows not past three quarters of a yard long.
--Spenser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Past \Past\ (p[.a]st), adv.
By; beyond; as, he ran past.
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The alarum of drums swept past. --Longfellow.
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