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BYGONE definition: 1. belonging to or happening in a past time: 2. used to tell someone that they should forget about…. Learn more.
The adjective bygone is good for describing long-ago times. Your grandparents might enjoy looking at old photo albums and reminiscing about bygone days. A bygone era happened in the distant past, and a bygone sweetheart is an early romantic interest remembered by someone who's since lived a long life.
used to tell someone that they should forget about unpleasant things that happened in the past, and especially to forgive and forget something bad that someone has done to them: Just let bygones be bygones and be friends again. See more. (Definition of bygone from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Bygone means happening or existing a very long time ago. The book recalls other memories of a bygone age. ...bygone generations. Synonyms: past, former, previous, lost More Synonyms of bygone. 2. See let bygones be bygones. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word Frequency. bygone in British English
: gone by : past. bygone days. especially : outmoded. bygone styles. bygone noun. Synonyms. bypast. dead. defunct. departed. done. expired. extinct. gone. nonextant. vanished. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of bygone in a Sentence. the bygone days of our ancestors The stone wall is from a bygone age.
Definition of bygone adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
bygone. ( ˈbaɪˌɡɒn) adj. ( usually prenominal) past; former. n. 1. ( often plural) a past occurrence. 2. (Antiques) ( often plural) an artefact, implement, etc, of former domestic or industrial use, now often collected for interest. 3. let bygones be bygones to agree to forget past quarrels.
Bygone definition: past; gone by; earlier; former. See examples of BYGONE used in a sentence.
Bygone Definition. bīgôn, -gŏn. bygones. Meanings. Synonyms. Sentences. Definition Source. Adjective. Noun. Idiom. Filter. adjective. That has or have gone by; past; former. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Synonyms: gone. foregone. departed. bypast. yore. whilom. quondam. past. oldfangled. olden. former. elapsed. backward. ancient. ago.
literary uk / ˈbaɪɡɒn / us. bygone age/days/era, etc. Add to word list Add to word list. a time in the past. (Definition of bygone from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Translations of bygone. in Chinese (Traditional) 過去的，以往的… See more. in Chinese (Simplified) 过去的，以往的… See more. in Portuguese. remoto… See more.
