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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bygone
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 you of an older, bygone age.
▪ They appear now to be products of a bygone age.
▪ Bundles of papers and piles of books guarded secrets from a bygone age.
▪ It is a relic of a bygone age, a cultural icon with a colorful political past.
▪ Will we at least be allowed our Nirvana, we children of that bygone age?
▪ His iron-grey hair was parted in the middle and he had the mutton-chop whiskers of a bygone age.
days
▪ In bygone days the Arms Park had an almost mystical quality for them.
▪ In bygone days, both railroad and stagecoach deposited visitors in nearby Point Reyes Station.
▪ Pearloid sheet has been used for the scratchplate, again reminiscent of bygone days.
▪ Today Deerfield is a destination for anyone enamored of bygone days.
▪ Their attention to the minor details of everyday life paints a far more vivid picture of bygone days than any history book.
era
▪ One of the first examples of a curvilinear glasshouse, it stands as a reminder of bygone eras in Belfast's history.
▪ Miss Piggy, Kermit and the rest now come across as symbols of a bygone era.
▪ As centres of commerce, finance and fashion their buildings reflect the sardonic elegance of a bygone era.
▪ Since the reprise of coach John Robinson, who brought national championships in a different, bygone era.
▪ In a bygone era the postmen and staff of Frensham Post Office lined up for this photo call.
▪ I live part of my time in an imaginary bygone era.
▪ The wooden panelling and stained glass windows created a genteel air from a bygone era.
▪ Straus' style evokes a bygone era, her language lyric, her ruminations bittersweet and poetic.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Carmarthen's street scenes reflect bygone years as do its placenames.
▪ He had impeccable manners that somehow always reminded you of an older, bygone age.
▪ I live part of my time in an imaginary bygone era.
▪ In bygone days the Arms Park had an almost mystical quality for them.
▪ It is a relic of a bygone age, a cultural icon with a colorful political past.
▪ Miss Piggy, Kermit and the rest now come across as symbols of a bygone era.
▪ On the second floor, room 30 is the favourite: devoted to dolls, toys and other mementos of bygone childhood.
▪ Since the reprise of coach John Robinson, who brought national championships in a different, bygone era.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bygone

Bygone \By"gone`\ (b[imac]"g[o^]n`; 115), a. Past; gone by. ``Bygone fooleries.''
--Shak.

Bygone

Bygone \By"gone`\, n. Something gone by or past; a past event. ``Let old bygones be''
--Tennyson.

Let bygones be bygones, let the past be forgotten.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bygone

early 15c., from by (adv.) + gone. Compare similar construction of aforesaid. As a noun from 1560s (see bygones).

Wiktionary
bygone

a. Having been or happened in the far past. n. A person or occurrence that took place in the past.

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WordNet
bygone

  1. 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]

  2. n. past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones" [syn: water under the bridge]

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.