 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bygone
adjective: well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone
times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a
departed era" [syn: {bypast}, {departed}, {foregone}, {gone}]
noun: past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones" [syn:
{water under the bridge}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bygone \By"gone'\ (b[imac]"g[o^]n'; 115), adjective
Past; gone by. ''Bygone fooleries.'' --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bygone \By"gone'\, noun
Something gone by or past; a past event. ''Let old bygones
be'' --Tennyson.
{Let bygones be bygones}, let the past be forgotten.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "bygone":
ago, antiquated, antique, archaic, belated, blown over, by, bypast,
dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, departed, elapsed,
erstwhile, expired, extinct, finished, forgotten, former, gone,
gone glimmering, gone-by, has-been, irrecoverable, lapsed, late,
lost, no more, obsolete, of old, of yore, old, old-time, old-timey,
olden, oldfangled, once, onetime, out-of-date, over, passe, passed,
passed away, past, quondam, run out, sometime, vanished, whilom,
wound up
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