Bygone

Definition: Bygone

Bygone

Adjective

1. Well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era".

Noun

1. Past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "bygone" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Synonyms: Bygone

Oblivion

Adjective: forgotten; Verb: unremembered, past recollection, bygone, out of mind; buried in oblivion, sunk in oblivion; clean forgotten; gone out of one's head, gone out of one's recollection.

Prediction

The following terms, expressive of different forms of divination, have been collected from various sources, and are here given as a curious illustration of bygone superstitions:-

The Past

Noun: the past, past time; days of yore, times of yore, days of old, times of old, days past, times past, days gone by, times gone by; bygone days; old times, ancient times, former times; fore time; the good old days, the olden time, good old time; auld lang syne; eld.

Adjective: past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone; elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed, expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return, gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable; obsolete; (old).

Crosswords: Bygone

Books

• An Empty Wagon Always Rattles Loudest : The Wit and Wisdom of a Bygone Era (reference)

• An Irish Country Childhood: Memories of a Bygone Age (reference)

• As I Saw It: How a TV Cameraman Covered News in Bygone Days (reference)

• Best Loved Tales of the Countryside: Collected Memories of a Bygone Era (reference)

• Bygone Beliefs (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Bygone Kent (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Music

• Stephen Dankner: Songs Of Bygone Days/Piano Sextet (reference)

• Bygone memories... (reference)

• In Bygone Times (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

In all the seven bygone years, Hester Prynne had never before been false to the symbol on her bosom.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "bygone": bygone days ♦ in bygone days. Additional references.

Albanian

e shkuara, e kaluara (history, past, preterit). (various references)

Arabic 

‏في الزمن السابق, ‏مهجور (abandoned, antiquated, archaic, archaism, derelict, deserted, desolate, disused, forlorn, forsaken, in disuse, lonely, lonesome, obsolete, outdated, outmoded, solitary, unfrequented), ‏منصرم (past), ‏ماضي (past), ‏ماض (ago, back, cutting, departed, last, past, previous), ‏عتيق الزي (ancient, antiquated, antique, dated, dowdy, out of date, outdated, outmoded, vintage). (various references)

Bulgarian 

минал (departed, foregone, former, late, overpast, past), преминал (departed, overblown). (various references)

Czech

minulý (ci-devant, last, past, preterite, previous), dávný (ancient, old). (various references)

Farsi 

چیزهای گذشته , کهنه (Ancient, Antique, Archaic, Clout, Dead, Gray, Lint, Musty, Obsolescent, Obsolete, Old, Olden, Pokey, Ragged, Rundown, Shabby, Tacky, Timeworn, Wad), قدیمی (Ancient, Archaic, Old, Olden, Outdated, Senior, Timeworn), گذشته ها, گذشته (Back, Late, Old, Past). (various references)

Finnish

taannoinen (past, recent). (various references)

French

passé. (various references)

German

vergangen (departed, former, last, past). (various references)

Greek 

περασμένος (past), του παρελθόντος. (various references)

Hebrew 

לשעבר (emeritus, former, formerly, heretofore, past, previously). (various references)

Hungarian

régmúlt (elder days, past perfect, pluperfect). (various references)

Italian

passato (departed, former, last, old, overpast, passe, past, past tense), finito (accomplished, along, completed, done, finished, finite, gone, kaput, out, over, through), antiquato (antiquated, obsolescent, obsolete, old fashioned, oldfangled, outdated, outmoded, quaint, rusty, Square, stuffy, superannuated), antico (age-old, ancient, antique, early, old, olden). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

過去　 (bygone days, the past), 過去 (bygone days, the past, the previous), �"�'偲ばせる�"� (things reminiscent of bygone days). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

か�" (bygone days, the past, the previous), むかし�'しのばせるしな (things reminiscent of bygone days). (various references)

Manx

shaghey (bye, delay, past), immeeit, harrish (above, across, beyond, over, over him, trans). (various references)

Pig Latin

ygonebay

Portuguese

passado (ago, departed, done, former, last, olden, overpast, passed, past, past perfect, stale, up). (various references)

Romanian

trecut (antecedent, background, departed, foretime, former, last, past), sã uitãm ce a fost, lucruri din trecut, din trecut, apus (decline, disappearance, faded, lapsed, occident, setting, sunset, vanished, West), întâmplãri (goings on). (various references)

Russian 

прошлое (antecedent, foretime, history, past), пережитое. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

protekli (last, overpast), prošlost (past, slate, yesteryear), prošli (aforetime, foregone, former, last, long ago, overpast, past, preceding). (various references)

Spanish

pasado (background, bad, beyond, departed, diluted, erstwhile, ex, foretime, former, gone, gone by, high, lapsed, last, off, old fashioned, outmoded, overblown, overpast, overripe, passed, past, preterit, preterite, rotten, sleepy, stale, tacky, tainted, turned, worn), cosa pasada. (various references)

Swedish

förgången (foregone, last, past), föråldrad (antiquated, archaic, moldy, mouldy, obsolescent, obsolete, out of date, outdated, outmoded, passe). (various references)

Thai

สิ่งที่ผ่านไปแล้ว, ซึ่งผ่านไปแล้ว. (various references)

Turkish

mazi (antecedents, past), geçmişte kalan, geçmiş (antecedents, background, belated, case history, departed, former, gone, history, lang syne, passe, passee, past, previous, standing, yesterdays), eski (ancient, archaic, auld, crusted, cut and dried, disused, earlier, early, erstwhile, ex, ex-, former, immemorial, late, obsolete, of long standing, of old, old, old time, old timer, olden, onetime, out of date, passe, passee, previous, prior, quondam, secondhand, sometime, trite, used, vet, veteran). (various references)

Ukrainian

колишні образи, минуле (backward, foretime, history, past, yesteryear, yore), минулий (ancient, backward, departed, erstwhile, former, gone, last, one time, overblown, overpast, past), пережите, пережитий (deep-felt). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quá khứ (antecedent, past), qua r�"i (overpast), cũ kỹ (antediluvian, dated, trite, world-old). (various references)

vetera, veteri, veteris, veterum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bygone": bygones. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Bygone" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: begonne, beyone, Bigena, Bignone, Brydone, Bugojno, byegone, byon, Byton, ebigone, Pygope. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bogey, boney, ebony.

-2 letters: bogy, bone, bong, bony, ebon, goby, gone, gybe, obey.

-3 letters: beg, ben, bey, bog, boy, bye, ego, eng, eon, gen, gey, gob, goy, neb, nob, nog, obe, one, yen, yob, yon.

-4 letters: be, bo, by, en, go, ne, no, oe, on, oy, ye, yo.

+1 letter: biogeny, bogymen, bygones, obeying.

+2 letters: bogeying, bogeyman, bogeymen, boogymen, moneybag.

+3 letters: boogeying, boogeyman, boogeymen, embodying, geobotany, moneybags, rebodying.

+4 letters: balneology, bayoneting, becomingly, beworrying, disobeying, embryogeny, loganberry, neighborly, overbuying, youngberry.

+5 letters: amblygonite, bayonetting, coembodying, embryogenic, keyboarding, lingonberry, observingly, reembodying.

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