past

Adjective

• of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office
  • a retiring member of the board
    

• earlier than the present time; no longer current
  • time past
    
  • his youth is past
    
  • this past Thursday
    
  • the past year
    

Adverb

• so as to pass a given point
  • every hour a train goes past
    

Noun

• a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past

• a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret)
  • reporters dug into the candidate's past
    

• the time that has elapsed
  • forget the past
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  past(a) , preceding(a) , retiring(a) , by , past tense , past times , yesteryear
• Antonyms: 
  present(a) , future , hereafter , futurity , time to come