Meaning of past in English | Powered by Free Dictionary API

verb

• To change place.

• To change in state or status

• To move through time.

• To be accepted.

• In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.

• To do or be better.

• To take heed.

noun

• The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.

  Example: a book about a time machine that can transport people back into the past

• (grammar) The past tense.

adjective

• Having already happened; in the past; finished.

  Example: past glories

• (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.

• Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.

  Example: during the past year

• (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.

  Example: past tense

adverb

• In a direction that passes.

  Example: I watched him walk past

• Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.

  Example: Ignore them, we'll play past them.

preposition

• Beyond in place, quantity or time.

  Example: count past twenty

• No longer capable of.

  Example: I'm past caring what he thinks of me.

• Having recovered or moved on from (a traumatic experience, etc.).