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Of an earlier time
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bygone
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era" [syn: bypast , departed , foregone , gone ] n. past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones" [syn: water under ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bygone \By"gone`\ (b[imac]"g[o^]n`; 115), a. Past; gone by. ``Bygone fooleries.'' --Shak.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Having been or happened in the far past. n. A person or occurrence that took place in the past.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bygone era (= a time in the past, usually when something was good ) ▪ The buildings have the elegance of a bygone era. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN age ▪ He had impeccable manners that somehow always reminded ...
Usage examples of bygone.
Those lucky, I simpler times were bygone with the era of upward mobility, of rising divorce rates and single-parent homes.
She felt ready for marriage: Nostalgia was fun, but it failed to beckon her into those bygone days.
The bedroom had reflected the rest of the Victorian house, which was a dubious monument to a bygone age.
Her old friend was moving away from bygone eras, talking of the present.
Because the Al-je-bal in bygone days swore to befriend one of your blood.
I too thank Allah Who in bygone days sent me that vision which has given me back the holy city of Jerusalem without bloodshed.
Then they clad her in fine linen, and put over it gorgeous, broidered garments, and a royal mantle of purple, and her own jewels which she had worn in bygone days, and with them others still more splendid, and threw about her head a gauzy veil worked with golden stars.
English of bygone radio announcers, slightly plummy and too good to be true.
The traditions of those bygone times, even to the smallest social particular, enable one to understand more clearly the circumstances which contributed to the formation of character.
Then, contemplating the pale moon, as she sinks beneath the waves of the rolling sea, the memory of bygone days strikes the mind of the hero, days when approaching danger invigorated the brave, and the moon shone upon his bark laden with spoils, and returning in triumph.
And a beam of past happiness streamed upon me, as the mind of a captive is illumined by dreams of flocks and herds and bygone joys of home!
Some said it was the science of a bygone age that had changed the climate and reduced most of the world to blasted desert, but Sorak knew it was defiler magic.
I think back to those bygone days of girlhood and wish just once, we could have had the courage to.
I have pens of reed and can make ink of various colours, who in the bygone days was no mean scribe.
Master of her rites, the royal Lady of Egypt says to me that in bygone days when she was scarce a woman, she thinks that before you were a priest, you held some command amongst the Greeks of my guard, as from your stature and bearing I can well believe.