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bygone Definition

by·gone (bī′gôn′)

adjective

that has or have gone by; past; former

noun

anything that is gone or past
bygone Idioms

let bygones be bygones

to let past offenses or disagreements be forgotten
bygone Synonyms

bygone

modif.

former, olden, past, of old; see former, old 3, past 1.

bygone Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • let: It was, some people said, time to let bygones be bygones, time to forget.

Adjective modifier

  • domestic: Visitors begin their tour in the reconstructed cruck house which houses the museum's collection of domestic bygones.
  • rural: He has a particular interest in ancient crafts and industries and he collects and restores rural bygones.
  • other: Other bygones cast completely from one's mind were a burden of which one were well rid.

Modifies a noun

  • era: Possibly more typical of a bygone era School of Dance, no less.
  • age: The café is the remnant of a bygone age - 1936 to be precise.
  • days.: Working crafts people and a 12,000 sq. ft. museum depicting life in bygone days. Licensed coffee shop, Gift Shop & Plant Sales.
  • day: Across the square notice the Beaufort Hotel which in bygone days was the coaching inn for the town.
  • generation: Many children today do not receive the teaching that children of a bygone generation received.
  • time: The place reminded us of bygone times - long past.

Modifying Another Word

  • seemingly: Tens of thousands of people were emboldened by the participatory praxis of the seemingly bygone anti-capitalist movement.
bygone Quotes

Her bygone simplicity was the art that conceals art.

—Hardy,Thomas

Labour once spent has no influence on the future value of any article; it isgone and lost for ever. In commerce bygones are forever bygones; and we are alwaysstarting clearat each moment, judging the values of things with a view to future utility.

—Jevons,William Stanley