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- Dictionarybygone/ˈbʌɪɡɒn/
adjective
- 1. belonging to an earlier time: "relics of a bygone age"
noun
- 1. a thing dating from an earlier time: "the museum consists of a fascinating collection of rural bygones"
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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.
: 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.
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.
Bygone definition: past; gone by; earlier; former. See examples of BYGONE used in a sentence.
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
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)
Definition of bygone adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
