Roget's Thesaurus

#122. The Past

Nouns

the past, past time; days of yore, times of yore, days of old, times of old, days past, times past, days gone by, times gone by; bygone days; old times, ancient times, former times; fore time; the good old days, the olden time, good old time; auld lang syne; eld. antiquity, antiqueness, status quo; time immemorial; distance of time; remote age, remote time; remote past; rust of antiquity. [study of the past] paleontology, paleography, paleology; paleozoology; palaetiology, archaeology; paleogeography; paleoecology; paleobotany; paleoclimatoogy; archaism, antiquarianism, medievalism, Pre-Raphaelitism; paleography. retrospect, retrospection, looking back, memory etc. 505. laudator temporis acti [Lat.]; medievalist, Pre-Raphaelite; antiquary, antiquarian; archmologist etc.; Oldbuck, Dryasdust. ancestry etc. (paternity) 166.

Verbs

be past etc. adj.; have expired etc. adj., have run its course, have had its day; pass; pass by, go by, pass away, go away, pass off, go off; lapse, blow over. look back, trace back, cast the eyes back; exhume.

Adjectives

past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone; elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed, expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return, gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable; obsolete etc. (old) 124. former, pristine, quondam, ci-devant [Fr.], late; ancestral. foregoing; last, latter; recent, over night; preterperfect, preterpluperfect. looking back etc. v.; retrospective, retroactive; archaeological etc. n..

Adverbs

paleo-; archaeo-; formerly; of old, of yore; erst [G.], whilom, erewhile, time was, ago, over; in the olden time etc. n.; anciently, long ago, long since; a long while, a long time ago; years ago, yesteryear, ages ago; some time ago, some time since, some time back. yesterday, the day before yesterday; last year, ultimo; lately etc. (newly) 123. retrospectively; ere now, before now, till now; hitherto, heretofore; no longer; once, once upon a time; from time immemorial, from prehistoric times; in the memory of man; time out of mind; already, yet, up to this time; ex post facto.

Phrases

time was; the time has been, the time hath been; you can't go home again; fuimus Troes [Lat.] [Vergil]; fruit Ilium [Lat.] [Vergil]; hoc erat in more majorum [Lat.]; O call back yesterday, bid time return [Richard II]; tempi passati [It.]; the eternal landscape of the past [Tennyson]; ultimus Romanorum [Lat.]; what's past is prologue [Tempest]; whose yesterdays look backward with a smile [Young].