Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bygone"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bygone \By"gone`\ (b[imac]"g[o^]n`; 115), a.
Past; gone by. ``Bygone fooleries.'' --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bygone \By"gone`\, n.
Something gone by or past; a past event. ``Let old bygones
be'' --Tennyson.
{Let bygones be bygones}, let the past be forgotten.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
bygone
adj : 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}]
n : past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones" [syn:
{water under the bridge}]
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