Bygone
past; gone by; earlier; former:
The faded photograph brought memories of bygone days.
Usually, bygones. that which is past:
Let’s not talk of bygones.
let bygones be bygones, to decide to forget past disagreements; become reconciled:
Let’s let bygones be bygones and be friends again.
Contemporary Examples
What to Eat: Spring Comfort Foods Cookstr.com April 26, 2010
England Goes Hollywood Alex Massie February 12, 2010
A Shifting Landscape of Sacrifice Peter Eisinger May 29, 2010
Game of Thrones for Dummies Jace Lacob April 12, 2011
My Address—and Apology—to Yale Christopher Buckley May 23, 2009
Historical Examples
The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces Joyce Kilmer
The Non-Christian Cross John Denham Parsons
Aurora Floyd, Vol. III (of 3) M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
The Slave Of The Lamp Henry Seton Merriman
Van Dyck Estelle M. Hurll
adjective
(usually prenominal) past; former
noun
(often pl) a past occurrence
(often pl) an artefact, implement, etc, of former domestic or industrial use, now often collected for interest
let bygones be bygones, to agree to forget past quarrels
adj.
Read Also:
- By-guess-and-by-god
by guess and by god
- Guess
to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person’s weight. to estimate or conjecture about correctly: to guess what a word means. to think, believe, or suppose: I guess I can get there in time. to form an estimate or […]
- By-gum
by gum, (used as a mild oath). noun any of various sticky substances that exude from certain plants, hardening on exposure to air and dissolving or forming viscous masses in water any of various products, such as adhesives, that are made from such exudates any sticky substance used as an adhesive; mucilage; glue (NZ) short […]
- Half
one of two equal or approximately equal parts of a divisible whole, as an object, or unit of measure or time; a part of a whole equal or almost equal to the remainder. a quantity or amount equal to such a part (½). Sports. either of two equal periods of play, usually with an intermission […]
- Halves
plural of half. by halves, incompletely or partially: to do things by halves. halfheartedly: better not at all than by halves. go halves, to share equally; divide evenly. one of two equal or approximately equal parts of a divisible whole, as an object, or unit of measure or time; a part of a whole equal […]