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Meanings of bygone in English

Well in the past; former.

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Past events to be put aside.

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Examples for "water under the bridge"
Examples for "water under the bridge"
1
Some disciplinary measures were taken but that's water under the bridge now.
The Irish Times
2
There had been so much water under the bridge, oceans of it.
Lone eagle
3
That is what matters now, the Saturday match is water under the bridge.
The South African
4
As if to say it was all water under the bridge.
The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
5
Too much water under the bridge, or under the turkey, as it were.
Safe harbour
Usage of bygone in English
1
More acts from bygone days have decided to go back to work.
The Irish Times
2
Imperial nostalgia is alive and kicking in yet another bygone empire: Russia.
The Guardian
3
SNOW, and its attendant inconveniences, were taken very seriously in bygone times.
The Irish Times
4
Many of her encounters reflect a growing return to bygone goods-exchange systems.
The Guardian
5
These are the days which the people in bygone times eagerly expected.
Selections From the Writings of the Báb
6
I have, in bygone Centuries, held many high disputations in the Church.
The Well of Saint Clare
7
Here, take a few minutes to look back at a bygone era.
BBC
8
They can also take inspiration from some of the great bygone eras.
The Irish Times
9
This is the custom and sentence of the people of bygone ages.
Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas
10
He spoke in the tone one uses to jest over bygone sadness.
A Life's Morning
11
There was something in his whole being suggestive of a bygone prosperity.
Barlasch of the Guard
12
Hawke had buried the pain, buried the hurt, buried the bygone days.
Warlord: an alex hawke novel
13
What other almost-bygone British sounds do you think Nilsson should be collecting?
The Guardian
14
The 'prentices think somebody may have been murdered there in bygone times.
Bleak House
15
This woeful shortcoming from bygone days attended other aspects of the scene.
Through the Mackenzie Basin / A Narrative of the Athabasca and P...
16
Thus all necessity for the reopening of bygone events will be obviated.
A Girl of the Commune
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Bygone through the time
Bygone across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common