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ˈbaɪˌgɔn, -ˌgɒnby·gone

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. bygone, water under the bridgeadjective

    past events to be put aside

    "let bygones be bygones"

  2. bygone, bypast, departed, foregone, goneadjective

    well in the past; former

    "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era"

Wiktionary

  1. bygonenoun

    A person or occurrence that took place in the past.

  2. bygoneadjective

    Having been or happened in the far past.

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  1. bygone

    A bygone refers to something that belonged to or happened in the past; it can refer to a past event, era, or period that is no longer existing or relevant. It can also be used to describe something that's outdated or obsolete.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Bygoneadjective

    past; gone by

  2. Bygonenoun

    something gone by or past; a past event

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of bygone in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of bygone in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of bygone in a Sentence

  1. David Mamet:

    The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in bygone days, an election celebrated the same).

  2. Gerard Cassidy:

    These are portfolios of a bygone era that were very, very painful for the banks, they are not plain vanilla portfolios, which means they are more costly to manage. It may just not be worth the headache.

  3. Andy Carroll:

    This generation sees letters as a very quaint, bygone thing that people used to do, but what they contain is some of the most extraordinary, most powerful sentiments and emotions because everything is more vibrant through the lens of warfare.

  4. Dejan Stojanovic:

    When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.

  5. Russell Ainsworth:

    It has to stop, we want, through Jack McCullough's struggle, for other people to learn that this can happen in our society. This is not part of bygone years and what happened in the '70s and '80s. This is happening today. This is happening to people who are honest, law-abiding citizens.

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