Thesaurus:the past
English edit
Noun edit
Sense: the period of time that has already happened edit
Synonyms edit
- days of yore (idiomatic)
- foreday (poetic, archaic)
- foretide
- foretime
- old days
- past [⇒ thesaurus]
- yestertide
- yestertime
- yesteryear (poetic)
- yore (poetic)
Antonyms edit
- the future [⇒ thesaurus]
- the present [⇒ thesaurus]
Hyponyms edit
- days of wine and roses
- golden age
- good old days
- halcyon days (idiomatic)
- —
- bad old days
- —
- mists of time
- —
- ereyesterday
- last night
- the night before last
- yester (archaic)
- yesterday
- yestern
- yestereve
- yesterevening
- yesternight
- yestersol
- yesteryear (rare)
- yestreen (chiefly archaic, poetic or Scotland)
- —
- antiquity
- eld (archaic or poetic)
Hypernyms edit
Meronyms edit
Holonyms edit
See also edit
- Thesaurus:past (adjective)
Further reading edit
- “122. the past” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “the past” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.