past tense

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
past/pɑːst/

▶adjective

• 1 gone by in time and no longer existing.

  ■ recently elapsed: the past twelve months.

• 2 Grammar (of a tense) expressing a past action or state.

▶noun

• 1 (usu. the past) a past period or the events in it.

  ■ a person's or thing's history or earlier life: the country's colourful past.

• 2 Grammar a past tense or form of a verb.

▶preposition

• 1 to or on the further side of.

• 2 in front of or from one side to the other of.

• 3 beyond in time; later than.

• 4 no longer capable of.

• 5 beyond the scope of.

▶adverb

• 1 so as to pass from one side of something to the other.

• 2 used to indicate the passage of time: a week went past.

– phrases
not put it past someone believe someone to be capable of doing something wrong or rash.
past it informal too old to be any good at anything.

– derivatives
pastness noun.

– origin ME: var. of passed, past part. of pass1.