Past

Definition: Past

Past

Adjective

1. Earlier than the present time; no longer current; "time past"; "his youth is past"; "this past Thursday"; "the past year".

2. Of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board".

3. (grammar) a verb tense or other construction referring to events or states that existed at some previous time; "past participle".

Adverb

1. So as to pass a given point; "every hour a train goes past".

Noun

1. The time that has elapsed; "forget the past".

2. A earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret); "reporters dug into the candidate's past".

3. A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past.

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

Date "past" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Satire

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Synonyms: Past

Crosswords: Past

Czech (mantrap, mesh, pit, pitfall, snare, trap), Dutch (fits), Welsh (paste).

They are my past. Everyone is haunted by their past (A Beautiful Mind; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Two of them were killers that never made it past the age of 35. The other is a non-practicing attorney, living within the pain of his past, too afraid to let go, finding reassurance instead of confronting its horror (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson)

In a past life this worm could have been your mother (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston)

You've always got to put the past behind you before you can move on. (Forrest Gump; writing credit: Eric Roth)

Life in the wide world goes on much as it has these past age, full of its own comings and goings, scarcely aware of the existence of hobbits for which I am very thankful (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Why can't you forget the past (Second Chance; performing artist: 38 Special)

A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past (32 Flavors; performing artist: Alana Davis)

So we could wash away the past, (Biggest Part of Me; performing artist: Ambrosia)

Love shines to sweep away the past (Price of Love; performing artist: Bad English)

And I heard you say the past (It's All Been Done; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies; writing credit: Steven Page)

Don't attempt to run from the past, it is always behind you. (references; author: unknown)

When Satan reminds you of your past, remind him of his future. (references; author: unknown)

There is no future in spending the present worrying about the past. (references; author: unknown)

The next time the Devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future. (references; author: unknown)

Life is like a grammar lesson: You find the past perfect and the present tense. (references; author: unknown)

Fat frogs flying past fast. (references; author: unknown)

Journey Through the Past (1972)

A Future for the Past (1971)

The Dead Past (1965)

Long Past Glory (1963)

Dablova past (1961)

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Books

• The CMA/CFM Exam : Test-Taking Tips and Past Examination Questions and Solutions (reference)

• The Land of the Permauls or, Cochin - its Past & its Present (reference)

• Not So!: Popular Myths About America's Past from Columbus to Clinton (reference)

• Lao-Tzu's Taoteching: With Selected Commentaries of the Past 2000 Years (reference)

• The quest for an image of brain : computerized tomography in the perspective of past and future imaging methods (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Foot Prints Past And Present (reference)

• Past Finder (reference)

• Past Present & Future (reference)

• Past Present Futures (reference)

• Past Times (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Jethro Tull - Living with the Past (reference)

• Out of the Past (reference)

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Music

• Street Man/Blasts From My Past [IMPORT] (reference)

• Half Past Autumn Suite (reference)

• Chequered Past (reference)

• Fight the Future Eradicate the Past [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Glimpse of Times Past (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• TV Land presents Blast From the Past! (reference)

• Kingston 100MBs 100BTX RJ45 Etherx Past Enet PCI Card with Drivers (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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The Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) is the country's critical epidemiology training service, combating the causes of major epidemics. Over the past 50 years, EIS officers have played pivotal roles in combating the root causes of major epidemics. Credit: CDC.

Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) is the country's critical epidemiology training service, combating the causes of major epidemics. Over the past 50 years, EIS officers have played pivotal roles in combating the root causes of major epidemics. Credit: CDC.

For the past decade astronomers have looked for vast quantities of hydrogen that were cooked ... Credit: NASA.

East end of Thatch Cay, U. S. Virgin Islands Old derelict, victim of storms past. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Looking past the spit at Gig Harbor to a barge-load of pine bark headed for to Steilacoom. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Traveling in style with the gravity field party - Tent camps were now a thing of the past. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Looking past P-3 starboard outboard engine to various aircraft. Credit: Flying With NOAA.

Pat Kurkul, the NE Regional Administrator, passes the herring to volunteers who then place the fish in trucks waiting to transport them past the dams and to their spawning grounds. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

The next in a series that shows the procedure for capturing and transporting migrating blueback herring and alewife past dams and to their spawning areas in the upper reaches of the river. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Coring into a coral reef to discover clues to past climate changes. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They may repulse the present attempt, but must not revenge past violences: for it is natural for us to defend life and limb, but that an inferior should punish a superior, is against nature. (Second Treatise of Government)

In bourgeois society, therefore, the past dominates the present; in Communist society, the present dominates the past. (reference)

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But we shall always hope to find them strongly supporting their own freedom--and to remember that in the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside. (reference)

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Nothing, but that the lessons of her past folly might teach her humility and circumspection in future

But the question of floating depends on the present state of things, not on past history

A quarter past.

On this public holiday, as on all other occasions, for seven years past, Hester was clad in a garment of coarse grey cloth

The counterfeits of the past take assumed names, and are fond of calling themselves the future

Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour

The cars drove past the chapel and all caps were raised

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future

And when that crop grew, and was harvested, no man had crumbled a hot clod in his fingers and let the earth sift past his fingertips

Which two mighty powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six and thirty moons past.

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Health

I’m not sad I’m past menopause. (references)

Inclusion has become more common over the past decade. (references)

Even many nonsymptomatic AVMs show evidence of past bleeding. (references)

Business

CATV in Japan has been growing in the past decade. (references)

This has been the situation over the past twenty years. (references)

Reading time has been relatively stable during the past decade. (references)

Children

El Salvador

Contrary to the past, there were no allegations during the year from children's rights advocates that police abuse and mistreat street children. (references)

Nicaragua

Despite some efforts, the Government's past role in helping the disabled is minimal and often has been criticized. (references)

Spain

In practice many courts in the past have authorized such surgery. (references)

Civil Liberties

Iceland

The committee has banned or required edits of several dozen films over the past 6 years. (references)

India

These searches tend to focus on troubled areas, as opposed to the mass searches that were common in the past. (references)

Iraq

Shi'a groups reported numerous instances of religious scholars being subjected to arrest, assault, and harassment in the past several years, particularly in the internationally renowned Shi'a academic center of Najaf. (references)

Discrimination

Vietnam

This prohibition is less restrictive than in past years because of the growth in private sector job opportunities. (references)

Vietnam

Some military veterans of the pre-l975 government still face economic hardship as a result of past employment restrictions and discrimination, but none are known still to be incarcerated for their activities before 1975. These veterans and their families generally are unable to obtain employment with the Government. (references)

Hong Kong

Past criticism of the organization for passivity and for emphasizing conciliation instead of acting as a watchdog or pursuing court cases disappeared as the Commission has become increasingly activist in its approach. (references)

Economic History

Japan

Japan has an enormous base of capital--physical, human and financial--that has been created over the past 50 years. (references)

Kenya

Restrictive legislation and the government's interventionist approach in the insurance sector has in the past forestalled more flexibility in the insurance companies' investment strategy. (references)

Japan

The process of reform has been uneven during the past ten years, but it accelerated in response to financial sector difficulties and a deep recession in 1998. The government took aggressive steps to prop up the economy and strengthen ailing banks. (references)

Human Rights

Fiji

No offenders were punished for past abuses; however, there were no reports of abuse during the year. (references)

Philippines

The courts and the police have failed to address complaints of victims' families concerning numerous past disappearances. (references)

Egypt

The report also documented 1,426 court rulings won by family members of detainees and 1,110 cases of compensation awarded for wrongful detention, all of which the Government failed to carry out, during the period from 1971 to 2000. In 2000 the Ministry of Interior ordered that prisoners who have served their sentences be released directly rather than transferred to State Security Directorates for processing, which in the past resulted in delayed releases for some prisoners. (references)

Indigenous People

Australia

In August 1999, the Government, in identical motions passed by both Houses of the Federal Parliament, expressed public regret for past mistreatment of the Aboriginal minority; however, the government-sponsored motion of reconciliation was criticized by many Aboriginal leaders as not going far enough. (references)

Canada

In response to court decisions over the past few years, the Government continues to work at resolving a variety of issues, including fishing rights in Atlantic Canada. (references)

Australia

Howard proposed that Parliament express "its deep and sincere regret" that Aboriginals had "suffered injustices under the practices of past generations, and for the hurt and trauma that many indigenous people continue to feel." However, both Aboriginal and opposition leaders stated that only a full apology would be sufficient. (references)

Minorities

Canada

The League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith in Canada reported that there were 280 incidents of anti-Semitism in 2000--a 5 percent increase from 1999. Harassment comprised 192 of the incidents, a decrease of 6 percent over 1999. However, the League stressed that many of those incidents were far more violent than in past years. (references)

Slovak Republic

In May unknown persons desecrated the Jewish cemetery in Levice for the sixth time in the past 6 years. (references)

Yemen

Their numbers have diminished significantly--from several tens of thousands to a few hundred--due to voluntary emigration over the past 50 years. (references)

Political Economy

INDONESIA

State enterprise employees, defined to include those working in enterprises in which the state has a five percent holding or greater, usually were KORPRI members in the past, but a small number of state enterprises have units of the Federation of All-Indonesian Trade Unions (SPSI). (references)

JAPAN

Japan's economic performance has been disappointing for most of the past ten years, with uneven but generally low growth, and persistent deflation (general price declines). (references)

TAIWAN

The progress of Taiwan democracy over the past decade has largely eased restrictions on association. (references)

Political Rights

Panama

Women's participation has increased in the past several years. (references)

Ukraine

While in the past a number of mayors reported harassment by law enforcement and other authorities, there were no such reports during the year. (references)

Albania

General elections, which began in June and ended in August, were deemed by international monitoring organizations to be an improvement over past contests; however, some serious irregularities occurred, and problems worsened during each round of voting. (references)

Trade

Egypt

Ministerial decrees over the past years have had an impact on U.S. trade with Egypt. (references)

Israel

This practice is appropriate and recommended when there is no past relationship and experience with the buyer. (references)

Zambia

Industry observers generally credit the BoZ with making large strides in improving bank oversight over the past several years. (references)

Travel

Cote D'ivoire

Crime in Abidjan has increased over the past several years, and remains at a critical level. (references)

Nepal

Prior to that, there had been no civil disturbances targeted at foreign investors in the past five years. (references)

Nigeria

However, a major development in the past few years is the fraudulent business scams that target foreigners, including a significant number of U.S. citizens. (references)

Women

Greece

Trade unions report that lawsuits for sexual harassment are very rare: According to the unions, only four women have filed such charges in the past 3 years. (references)

Vietnam

Reportedly about two-thirds of divorces are due in part to domestic violence, and the divorce rate has risen dramatically in the past few years, but many women likely remain in abusive marriages rather than confront the stigma and economic uncertainty of divorce. (references)

Canada

Services available to abused women have increased significantly over the past 2 decades, and there were 508 shelters for abused women across the country in 2000. A total of 24,049 cases of sexual assault were reported in 2000, an increase of 177 cases from 1999. The courts consider such cases seriously and those convicted of sexual assault face up to 10 years in prison. (references)

Worker Rights

Fiji

The only central labor body is the Fiji Trades Union Congress (FTUC), which in the past was associated closely with the opposition Fiji Labor Party; unions operate under its auspices. (references)

Iraq

No strike has been reported for during the past 2 decades. (references)

Russia

Many are constrained economically because their savings were destroyed by past inflation and the nonpayment of wages. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "past": a quarter past two ♦ a town with a past ♦ a women with a past ♦ be a past master in ♦ be past ♦ be past hope ♦ be past it ♦ belt past ♦ blaze past ♦ blow past ♦ brush past ♦ carry past ♦ come past ♦ come to terms with the past ♦ dangerous : past cure ♦ dead hand of the past ♦ deep in the past ♦ delve into the past ♦ dig into smb.'s past ♦ dip deep into the past ♦ distant past ♦ Distributing past office ♦ drive past ♦ edge past smb. ♦ flash past ♦ fly past ♦ for some time past ♦ for the past few days ♦ get past ♦ go past ♦ half past one ♦ half past six ♦ i'm past it ♦ in a past time ♦ in the dim and distant past ♦ in the distant past ♦ in the past ♦ in the past week ♦ in the recent past ♦ in times past ♦ it is past belief ♦ it is past endurance ♦ lay past ♦ let past ♦ march past ♦ move past ♦ nose past smth. ♦ parade past ♦ participle past ♦ past ages ♦ past belief ♦ past comprehension ♦ past cure ♦ past danger ♦ past due ♦ past due balance ♦ past due binl ♦ past endurance ♦ past expression ♦ past generations ♦ past history ♦ past hope ♦ past imperfect ♦ past labor ♦ past labour ♦ past master ♦ past one's prime ♦ past participle ♦ past perfect ♦ past perfect tense ♦ past performances ♦ past president ♦ past progressive ♦ past progressive tense ♦ past question ♦ past recall ♦ past recognition ♦ past redemption ♦ past remedy ♦ past retrieve ♦ past tense ♦ past the baker's shop ♦ past thirty ♦ past times ♦ past weather ♦ past week ♦ past work ♦ push past ♦ quarter past one ♦ rake up the past ♦ recent past ♦ relic of the past ♦ roll past ♦ run past ♦ scurry past ♦ shoot past ♦ shove past smb. ♦ simple past ♦ slip past ♦ squeeze past ♦ sweep past. Additional references.

Beginning with "past": past-and-future-catastrophe, past-apart, past-due, past-few, past-history, past-it, past-life, past-life, past-master, past-masters, past-participant, past-president, past-scratch, past-tense, past-the, past-time.

Ending with "past": fly-past, half-past, long-past, march-past, non-past, quarter-past, twenty-past.

Containing "past": first-past-the-post.

Afrikaans

verlede (last), verby (beyond, by, straight, straight past). (various references)

Albanian

pranë (about, alongside, alongside of, beside, by, hard by, near, near at hand, nearby, next, next to, nigh, over, thereby), përtej (above, across, athwart, below, beyond, over, trans, up), përpara (afore, ahead, along, before, ere, erst, erstwhile, fore, foremost, forth, forward, frontward, frontwards, in advance, in front, in front of, of old, onward, or, preliminary, previous to, prior to), matanë (across, athwart, below, beyond, in the opposite direction, on the other side of, over, trans), kaluar (astraddle, astride, by, horseback, passed, Walker), ish- (ci-devant, ex-, former, late), i shkuar (departed, last), i mbaruar (arrant, done, finished, haggard, out of hand, perfect, proper), i kaluar (advanced, back, current, departed, last, mounted, overpast), e shkuar, e kaluara (bygone, history, preterit), e (and, him, it, of), biografi (biography, curriculum vitae, memoir). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فائت, ‏منقض, ‏منصرم (bygone), ‏ماضي (bygone), ‏ماض (ago, back, bygone, cutting, departed, last, previous), ‏مارا به, ‏غابر (ancient), ‏سابق (antecedent, anterior, back, elder, ex-, fore, foregoing, former, harbinger, last, once, preamble, preceding, preliminary, previous, prior, quondam, race), ‏زمن الماضي, ‏الى ما وراء, ‏الماضى, ‏إلى أبعد, ‏دال على الماضي, ‏بعيدا (afar, apart, apart from, away, far, off, onward). (various references)

Bulgarian 

свръх (above, excess, over and above), след (after, behind, for, hence, in, on), край (about, abutment, border, by, close, closing, conclusion, country, curtains, death, dissolution, edge, end, ending, extremity, fag end, finale, finality, finish, flange, hem, issuance, issue, land, last, limb, limit, list, margin, off, on, outskirts, over, parts, period, point, quietus, region, rim, stop, surcease, tail, term, terminal, termination, truce, ultima thule, verge, wind up), оттатък (across, behind, beyond, over, round), отвъд (across, beyond, outside, over), над (above, beyond, over, upward of, with), минало време (preterit, preterite), минало (antecedents, bygones, record, yore), минал (bygone, departed, foregone, former, late, overpast), по-късно от, покрай (along, alongside, beside, by, in addition to), повече от (above, over, upward of), по-нататък от, изтекъл, изминал. (various references)

Chinese 

過去 (former, previous, to go over, to pass by), 通过 (Passed, Passing, through, Thru, VIA), 昔 (former), 往 (bound for, previous, to go, toward, towards). (various references)

Czech

minulost, minulý (bygone, ci-devant, last, preterite, previous). (various references)

Danish

fortid, forbi (because, beyond, by, for, since, straight past). (various references)

Dutch

verleden (former, last, previous, prior). (various references)

Esperanto

preter (beyond, by, straight past), pli malproksime ol (beyond), pasinto, pasinteco, estinto, estinteco. (various references)

Estonian

möödunud. (various references)

Faeroese

um (about, beyond, by, concerning, during, for, if, on, provided that, straight past, upon, whereas, while, whilst), framvið (beyond, by, straight past). (various references)

Farsi 

پیشینه (History, Record), پیش از (Before), پیش (Ahead, Along, Before, Beforehand, Fore, Foreside, Forth, Forward, Front, Presence, To), پایان یافته , ماقبل (Precedency), ماورای (Ultra), ماضی , گذشته از (Aside), گذشته (Back, Bygone, Late, Old), وابسته بزمان گذشته , دوراز (Away, Far), درماورای . (various references)

Finnish

ohi (beyond, by, over, straight past). (various references)

French

passé, au-delà de (straight past). (various references)

German

vorbei (all over, beyond, by, finished, gone, over, straight past), vorüber (beyond, by, over gone, straight past), Vergangenheit (foretime, history, nostalgia, past tense, pluperfect, yesterdays), vergangen (bygone, departed, former, last). (various references)

Greek 

μετά (after, afterward, afterwards, next, then, with), πέραν (across, beyond), περασμένοσ (by-gone, departed, gone by, has been, olden, passe), περασμένος (bygone), παρελθών (preterit), παρελθόν, το παρελθόν. (various references)

Guarani

kuri (immediate past tense marker). (various references)

Haitian Creole

pase. (various references)

Hebrew 

מעבר ל- (across, beyond, over), לשעבר (bygone, emeritus, former, formerly, heretofore, previously), שעבר (bypast), שחלף, קורות העבר, על פני (in front of, on top of, onto), עבר (past tense). (various references)

Hungarian

múlt (bygone, foretime, last, last night), túl (above all, across, beyond, excess, luscious, over, past bearing, premature, skittish, to be rising forty, to overstay, too, upwards), régi (ancient, antique, bygone, centner, hand-me-down, hoar, hoary, of old, old, old time, old-world, pristine, stale, time honored, time-honoured, time-worn), mellett (along, at, beside, by, death-watch, given the proper conditions, near, near to, nearby, next, next to, nip and tuck, to dwell on sg, to give sy the cut direct, to rush past sy, with), elmúlt (departed, last, over, passed, to be over), el (aside, away, clear, have the horrors, it is beyond my reach, off, to act as secretary, to go wrong, to obsess, to play foul, to spike, to spile, way). (various references)

Indonesian

masa lalu, lalu (afterwards, last, pass, then), berlalu (be gone, over, overdue, pass by). (various references)

Irish

caite. (various references)

Italian

passato (bygone, departed, former, last, old, overpast, passe, past tense). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

過ぎ (after), 身許 (background, ID, person's identity), 身元 (background, ID, person's identity), 曰く (history, pretext, story, to reason, to say). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

すぎ (after, Japanese cedar), いわく (history, pretext, story, to reason, to say), みもと (background, ID, person's identity). (various references)

Korean 

지나서. (various references)

Manx

shaghey (bye, bygone, delay), shagh. (various references)

Pig Latin

astpay.(various references)

Portuguese

passado (ago, bygone, departed, done, former, last, olden, overpast, passed, stale, up), além (above, after-life, beyond, further, further on, over there, straight past, there, upward, yet, yon, yonder). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

passada. (various references)

Romanian

trecutã, trecut (antecedent, background, bygone, departed, foretime, former, last), timpul care a trecut. (various references)

Russian 

минувший (bygone), за (after, at, behind, beyond, during, for, in favor of, in favour of, one for, out, out of, over, whereas, while, whilst), прошедшее время (preterit), прошедший (overpast), прошлый (last, one-time, overpast), прошлое прошлый;последний, прошлое (antecedent, bygone, foretime, history), после (after, apres, behind, beyond, later on, next, post-), истекший (last). (various references)

Scottish

seachad (along, aside, forward, onward, past : seachad air). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prošlost (bygone, slate, yesteryear), prošli (aforetime, bygone, foregone, former, last, long ago, overpast, preceding), pored (along, alongside, alongside of, bedside, beside, besides, by, close to, near, next to, notwithstanding, spite: in spite of), raniji (antecedent, earlier, former, prior), mimo (by, outside, spite: in spite of). (various references)

Spanish

pasado (background, bad, beyond, bygone, departed, diluted, erstwhile, ex, foretime, former, gone, gone by, high, lapsed, last, off, old fashioned, outmoded, overblown, overpast, overripe, passed, preterit, preterite, rotten, sleepy, stale, tacky, tainted, turned, worn), anterior (aforegoing, antecedent, anterior, before, earlier, fore, former, formerly, front, preceding, previous, prior). (various references)

Swedish

förliden (foregone), förbi (all in, by, done, go by, gone, over), bortom (beyond), över (about, above, across, after, beyond, concerning, of, on, over, through, throughout, upon, via). (various references)

Tahitian

ma'iri. (various references)

Thai

บินผ่าน (ด้านบน) อย่างเร็ว (zoom over / past), ลักลอบนำผ่าน (smuggle past). (various references)

Turkish

mazi (antecedents, bygone), geçmiş zaman (Eld, lang syne, past tense, preterit, preterite), geçmiş (antecedents, background, belated, bygone, case history, departed, former, gone, history, lang syne, passe, passee, previous, standing, yesterdays). (various references)

Turkmen 

цс (ago, front, in the front, in the past). (various references)

Ukrainian

убік (aside, sidelong, sideward, sidewards), минуле (backward, bygone, foretime, history, yesteryear, yore), минулий (ancient, backward, bygone, departed, erstwhile, former, gone, last, one time, overblown, overpast), мимо (by), повз (by), понад (above, aloft, beyond, o'er, over), по той бік (beyond). (various references)

Vietnamese 

quá khứ (antecedent, bygone), qua quá, dĩ vãng, đã qua (bypast, departed). (various references)

Welsh

heibio i, heibio (by), gorffennol. (various references)

Wolof

teg (past for time). (various references)

Xhosa

ngecalaemva (Half past), ngecala (At half, Half past), licalaemva (Half past). (various references)

praeterita, praeteriti, praeteritis, praeterito, praeteritum, praeteritus, praeteritus, preteritus, præter. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "past": pasta, pastas, paste, pasteboard, pasteboards, pasted, pastedown, pastedowns, pastel, pastelist, pastelists, pastellist, pastellists, pastels, paster, pastern, pasterns, pasters, pastes, pasteup, pasteups, pasteurise, pasteurised, pasteurises, pasteurising, pasteurization, pasteurizations, pasteurize, pasteurized, pasteurizer, pasteurizers, pasteurizes, pasteurizing, pasticci, pasticcio, pasticcios, pastiche, pastiches, pasticheur, pasticheurs, pastie, pastier, pasties, pastiest, pastil, pastille, pastilles, pastils, pastime, pastimes, pastina. (additional references)

Words ending with "past": antepast, bypast, flypast, forepast, nonpast, overpast, repast. (additional references)

Words containing "past": antepasts, antipasti, antipasto, antipastos, bronchospastic, copastor, copastors, flypasts, impaste, impasted, impastes, impasting, impasto, impastoed, impastos, nonpasts, prepaste, prepasted, prepastes, prepasting, repasted, repasting, repasts, spastic, spastically, spasticities, spasticity, spastics, toothpaste, toothpastes, unpasteurized, unpastoral, vasospastic. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Past" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: apast, Apsg, iast, pabst, Pacht, paet, paft, pait, palt, pasa, pasat, pasi, paso, Passk, pasti, Pasto, pastu, Pasu, pasz, Paszti, patt, Paust, paxt, paz, pazy, pazz, peast, Pfas, Piast, piost, pist, pixt, plst, posbt, Prasat, Prasith, Psac, Psad, psalt, psar, psat, psb, psd, psst, Pusat, pust, yast. (additional references)

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

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pats, spat, taps.

-1 letter: apt, asp, pas, pat, sap, sat, spa, tap, tas.

-2 letters: as, at, pa, ta.

+1 letter: ataps, pacts, pants, parts, pasta, paste, pasts, pasty, pates, paths, patsy, peats, pitas, plats, prats, septa, spait, spate, spats, splat, sprat, sputa, stamp, staph, strap, stupa, tamps, tapas, tapes, tapis, tarps, tepas, traps.

+2 letters: adapts, adepts, adopts, aptest, aspect, bypast, catsup, claspt, coapts, epacts, etapes, expats, paints, palest, palets, pantos, papist, pastas, pasted, pastel, paster, pastes, pastie, pastil, pastis, pastor, pastry, patens, paters, pathos, patins, patios, patois, peseta, petals, petsai, pietas, pintas, pitsaw, plaits, plants, plates, platys, pleats, postal, potash, prates, ptisan, rapist, repast, sapota, sapote, satrap, septal, spaits, spates, spathe, spital, splats, sprats, stamps, stapes, staphs, staple, straps, stupas, tapers, tapirs, taupes, tepals, tramps, trapes, upcast, wataps.