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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bygone \By"gone`\ (b[imac]"g[o^]n`; 115), a.
     Past; gone by. "Bygone fooleries." --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Bygone \By"gone`\, n.
     Something gone by or past; a past event. "Let old bygones be"
     --Tennyson.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     {Let bygones be bygones}, let the past be forgotten.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bygone
       adj : well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone
             times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a
             departed era" [syn: {bypast}, {departed}, {foregone}, {gone}]
       n : past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones" [syn:
           {water under the bridge}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "bygone":
     ago, antiquated, antique, archaic, belated, blown over, by, bypast,
     dated, dead, dead and buried, deceased, defunct, departed, elapsed,
     erstwhile, expired, extinct, finished, forgotten, former, gone,
     gone glimmering, gone-by, has-been, irrecoverable, lapsed, late,
     lost, no more, obsolete, of old, of yore, old, old-time, old-timey,
     olden, oldfangled, once, onetime, out-of-date, over, passe, passed,
     passed away, past, quondam, run out, sometime, vanished, whilom,
     wound up
  
  

















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