Past definition
Past midnight; a quarter past two.
He waved as he walked past.
A past president; a past inmate of a cell.
Our past troubles.
The past week.
A past chairman.
A woman with a past.
Five past four.
An example of the past is yesterday.
The house is a mile past the first stoplight. They walked past the memorial in silence.
An example of past is someone's ex-boyfriend.
40 years past.
In the past few days.
An elderly person with a distinguished past.
A family with a checkered past.
The child couldn't count past 20.
The problem is past the point of resolution.
The child is past drinking from a bottle. You're past sucking your thumb, so don't do it.
Past belief.
Past glories.
Past tense.
I watched him walk past.
His youth is past.
Past events; in years past.
- to judge that someone is not incapable of engaging in some specified action