Definition of Past times

1. Noun. The time that has elapsed. "Forget the past"


Lexicographical Neighbors of Past Times

past master
past paper
past papers
past participial
past participle
past participles
past perfect
past perfect continuous
past perfect progressive
past perfect tense
past progressive
past progressive tense
past simple
past tense
past tenses
past times (current term)
pasta
pasta salad
pasta sauce
pastable
pastalike
pastance
pastances
pastas
paste-egg
paste-up
paste egg
pasteboard
pasteboards

Literary usage of Past times

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"citizen might apply, to his contemporaries or himself, CHAP. the lesson or the warning of past times. From the au- ' '" '• gust character of a legislator, ..."

2. News from Nowhere: An Epoch of Rest, Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance by William Morris (1891)
"... OF past times. OO on we went, Dick rowing in an easy, tireless ^ way, and Clara sitting by my side, admiring his manly beauty and heartily good-natured ..."

3. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"... yet the district to which the name of Clerkenwell was more particularly attached in past times is that immediately surrounding the Green, the Close, ..."

4. An Essay on the Principle of Population: Or, A View of Its Past and Present by Thomas Robert Malthus (1817)
"BOOK I. OF THE CHECKS TO POPULATION IN THE LESS CIVILIZED PARTS OF THE WORLD AND IN past times. CHAP. I. Statement of the Subject. Ratios of the Increase of ..."

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