Meaning & use

bygone

adjective·Academic

Belonging to an earlier time; past, especially in a way that evokes nostalgia or memory.

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The museum recreated the sights and sounds of a bygone era of steam trains.

She spoke fondly of bygone summers spent at her grandparents' lake house.

A note on using this word

Let bygones be bygones is a common idiom meaning to forgive past disagreements and move forward without resentment.

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