Past: nm (substantiated past participle, to pass).
The word “past” has several meanings:
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1. What has been, relative to a given present moment.
Quote from the French writer Georges Duhamel (1884-1966): He had “The novelist is the historian of the present; the historian is the novelist of the past”.
To worship the past: to be conservative, traditionalist (backward-looking, reactionary, retrograde).
Quote from the French writer and poet Victor Hugo (1802-1885): “When...
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