Associations to the word «Bygone»

Wiktionary

BYGONE, adjective. Having been or happened in the distant past.
BYGONE, noun. An event that happened in the past.

Dictionary definition

BYGONE, noun. Past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones".
BYGONE, adjective. Well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats