bygone

bygone

by·gone / ˈbīˌgôn/ • adj. belonging to an earlier time: relics of a bygone society. • n. (usu. bygones) a thing dating from an earlier time. PHRASES: let bygones be bygones forget past offenses or causes of conflict and be reconciled.

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bygone past XV; sb. pl. things past; arrears XVI (orig. Sc., and hardly naturalized in England before XVIII). f. BY adv. ‘past’ + pp. of GO.

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