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bygone
[ bahy-gawn, -gon ]
adjective
- past; gone by; earlier; former:
The faded photograph brought memories of bygone days.
noun
- Usually bygones. that which is past:
Let's not talk of bygones.
bygone
/ ˈbaɪˌɡɒn /
adjective
- usually prenominal past; former
noun
- often plural a past occurrence
- often plural an artefact, implement, etc, of former domestic or industrial use, now often collected for interest
- let bygones be bygonesto agree to forget past quarrels
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- let bygones be bygones, to decide to forget past disagreements; become reconciled:
Let's let bygones be bygones and be friends again.
Example Sentences
Blues music is often treated like a museum piece, a relic from a bygone day, but this band will make you want to get up and dance.
The outsized personalities of that time are also of a bygone era.
In those bygone days before cell phones, they had to rely on an elaborate “buddy system,” a telephone tree, and pay phones.
Three years on, doesn't it already feel like a leftover from a bygone era?
And now, dig into this profile of Royko, a giant from a bygone time.
The "organ beater" of bygone days was invariably accompanied by the "organ pumper," often by several of them.
But he failed to impose upon the Colonel, and was even far from impressing him with this trumped-up knowledge of bygone days.
It is indeed in the fancy of Shakespeare that this bygone sweetness and irony seem the oftener to be kindled and awakened.
Greetings to you and other Speculatives of our date, long bygone, alas!
In the regions of the Midi, of bygone civilization, historical castles still standing are rare.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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