English Dictionary

past

/pɑːst/

adj

Having already happened; in the past; finished. / (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago. / Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.

The past year has been challenging for everyone.

意味（1）

Having already happened; in the past; finished.

The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages, the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.

意味（2）

(postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.

That had been, what, three years past?

意味（3）

Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.

Sarkozy's total will be seen as a personal failure. It is the first time an outgoing president has failed to win a first-round vote in the past 50 years and makes it harder for Sarkozy to regain momentum.

意味（4）

(grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.

past tense