Bygone
adjective
Something that happened or existed in the past, not now.
We should let bygones be bygones and start afresh.
Often appears as...
- let bygones be bygones
- a bygone era
Usage tips
Neutral
noun
A thing dating from an earlier time.
The car was a bygone of an era long passed.
Often appears as...
- bygone era
- bygone age
Usage tips
Neutral
adjective
Something that happened or existed in the past, not now.
We should let bygones be bygones and start afresh.
Often appears as...
- let bygones be bygones
- a bygone era
Usage tips
Neutral
noun
A thing dating from an earlier time.
The car was a bygone of an era long passed.
Often appears as...
- bygone era
- bygone age
Usage tips
Neutral
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Time Reference
Use 'bygone' for discussing periods or moments far back in time, not recent past.
She often reminisced about the bygone summers of her childhood.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Tone
'Bygone' often evokes nostalgia or a sense of something lost to the past.
The old mill was a bygone symbol of the town's prosperous past.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-physical Concepts
Can refer to intangible things like feelings or relationships, not just physical items.
The bygone rivalry between the two families had been forgotten.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Reference
Use 'bygone' for discussing periods or moments far back in time, not recent past.
She often reminisced about the bygone summers of her childhood.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Tone
'Bygone' often evokes nostalgia or a sense of something lost to the past.
The old mill was a bygone symbol of the town's prosperous past.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-physical Concepts
Can refer to intangible things like feelings or relationships, not just physical items.
The bygone rivalry between the two families had been forgotten.
Pro Tip 1/3Time Reference
Use 'bygone' for discussing periods or moments far back in time, not recent past.
She often reminisced about the bygone summers of her childhood.
Pro Tip 2/3Emotional Tone
'Bygone' often evokes nostalgia or a sense of something lost to the past.
The old mill was a bygone symbol of the town's prosperous past.
Pro Tip 3/3Non-physical Concepts
Can refer to intangible things like feelings or relationships, not just physical items.
The bygone rivalry between the two families had been forgotten.
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Video examples
Did ancient Troy really...
many were skeptical, considering the epic to be pure fiction, a founding myth imagining a bygone heroic era. But some scholars believed that behind the superhuman feats and divine miracles there must have been a grain of historical truth - a war that was really fought, and a place where it happened.
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Kayvon Tehranian: How...
And unlike copyright or watermarks, which are ancient technologies rooted in bygone eras, NFTs are internet native. They are born of the internet for the internet. And NFTs don't simply port our existing model of ownership from the physical world, they improve it.
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Discovering Attenborough'...
they show animals filmed for the first time as well as being a unique cultural record of a bygone era I was astonished to hear that they had all this color negative stock I had never seen it and
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Peek Inside the Strange,...
unchanged for a thousand years ancient life still clings to an old world this patchwork of habitats provides a stronghold for creatures of a bygone age
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Did ancient Troy really...
many were skeptical, considering the epic to be pure fiction, a founding myth imagining a bygone heroic era. But some scholars believed that behind the superhuman feats and divine miracles there must have been a grain of historical truth - a war that was really fought, and a place where it happened.
Video examples
Kayvon Tehranian: How...
And unlike copyright or watermarks, which are ancient technologies rooted in bygone eras, NFTs are internet native. They are born of the internet for the internet. And NFTs don't simply port our existing model of ownership from the physical world, they improve it.
Video examples
Discovering Attenborough'...
they show animals filmed for the first time as well as being a unique cultural record of a bygone era I was astonished to hear that they had all this color negative stock I had never seen it and
Video examples
Peek Inside the Strange,...
unchanged for a thousand years ancient life still clings to an old world this patchwork of habitats provides a stronghold for creatures of a bygone age
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Quote examples
Amos Oz
Israeli Writer
Literature is always about bygone times. It's always looking back in time with a certain perspective. I look at bygone life which no longer exists, and as I said, I look at it without nostalgia but without anger, either. I look at it with criticism and with compassion. I look at it with curiosity.
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Edward Everett Hale
American Clergyman
The Resurrection miracle is nothing to you and me if it is only an event of eighteen centuries bygone. Unless we can live the immortal life - unless we can receive God to his own home in these hearts of ours - the texts are nothing to us unless these daily lives illustrate them.
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Tiger Shroff
Indian Actor
I think cinema is so visually driven now, and people are so taken in by the glamour, gloss and all things good looking that we don't appreciate the craft as much as we used to in the bygone era.
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Adam Lashinsky
American Editor
I confess that, like public figures from bygone days or an entertainer that hadn't been heard from in eons, I didn't know AIM, as we all called it, still existed at all.
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Gerard Pique
Spanish Athlete
I consider that, in a democracy, everyone has the right to decide. If people don't have the right to express what they feel, we would be going back to a bygone era.
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Sophie Dahl
English Model
I know part of nostalgia is romanticising the past, but I love doing things in a slower way, and the glamour of bygone eras.
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Paul Gosar
American Politician
We were elected to serve our districts, and that demands putting bygones aside. That's what leadership's all about.
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Joseph Stiglitz
American Economist
Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
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Hina Khan
Indian Actress
I let bygones be bygones, and guys, 'BB' game is over now.
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Nana Patekar
Indian Actor
I don't like talking about bygones.
Quote examples
Amos Oz
Israeli Writer
Literature is always about bygone times. It's always looking back in time with a certain perspective. I look at bygone life which no longer exists, and as I said, I look at it without nostalgia but without anger, either. I look at it with criticism and with compassion. I look at it with curiosity.
Quote examples
Edward Everett Hale
American Clergyman
The Resurrection miracle is nothing to you and me if it is only an event of eighteen centuries bygone. Unless we can live the immortal life - unless we can receive God to his own home in these hearts of ours - the texts are nothing to us unless these daily lives illustrate them.
Quote examples
Tiger Shroff
Indian Actor
I think cinema is so visually driven now, and people are so taken in by the glamour, gloss and all things good looking that we don't appreciate the craft as much as we used to in the bygone era.
Quote examples
Adam Lashinsky
American Editor
I confess that, like public figures from bygone days or an entertainer that hadn't been heard from in eons, I didn't know AIM, as we all called it, still existed at all.
Quote examples
Gerard Pique
Spanish Athlete
I consider that, in a democracy, everyone has the right to decide. If people don't have the right to express what they feel, we would be going back to a bygone era.
Quote examples
Sophie Dahl
English Model
I know part of nostalgia is romanticising the past, but I love doing things in a slower way, and the glamour of bygone eras.
Quote examples
Paul Gosar
American Politician
We were elected to serve our districts, and that demands putting bygones aside. That's what leadership's all about.
Quote examples
Joseph Stiglitz
American Economist
Letting bygones be bygones is a basic principle in economics.
Quote examples
Hina Khan
Indian Actress
I let bygones be bygones, and guys, 'BB' game is over now.
Quote examples
Nana Patekar
Indian Actor
I don't like talking about bygones.
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