| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Past events surrounding a person or thing: background, history. See HAPPEN. 2. A former period of time or of one's life: yesterday, yesteryear, yore. Idioms: bygone days, days gone by, the good old days, the old days. See TIME. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Having been such previously: erstwhile, former, late, old, once, onetime, previous, quondam, sometime, whilom. See PRECEDE. 2. Just gone by or elapsed: antecedent, anterior, earlier, foregoing, former, precedent, preceding, previous, prior. See TIME.
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