past : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: past	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for past
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
past adv so as to pass a given point; "every hour a train goes past" Synonym(s): by, past adj earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year" Antonym(s): future, present(a) of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board" Synonym(s): past(a), preceding(a), retiring(a) n the time that has elapsed; "forget the past" [syn: past, past times, yesteryear] Antonym(s): future, futurity, hereafter, time to come a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate's past" a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past Synonym(s): past, past tense
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Past \Past\, adv. By; beyond; as, he ran past. The alarum of drums swept past. --Longfellow.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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. [bd]Past ages.[b8] --Milton. {Past master}. See under {Master}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Past \Past\, n. A former time or state; a state of things gone by. [bd]The past, at least, is secure.[b8] --D. Webster. The present is only intelligible in the light of the past, often a very remote past indeed. --Trench.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Past \Past\, prep. 1. Beyond, in position, or degree; further than; beyond the reach or influence of. [bd]Who being past feeling.[b8] --Eph. iv. 19. [bd]Galled past endurance.[b8] --Macaulay. Until we be past thy borders. --Num. xxi. 22. Love, when once past government, is consequently past shame. --L'Estrange.