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Meaning: The time that has elapsed Classified under: Nouns denoting time and temporal relations Synonyms: past; past times; yesteryear; yore Context example: forget the past Hypernyms ("yore" is a kind of...): time (the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past) Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "yore"): bygone; water under the bridge (past events to be put aside) old (past times (especially in the phrase 'in days of old')) history (the aggregate of past events) time immemorial; time out of mind (the distant past beyond memory) auld langsyne; good old days; langsyne; old times (past times remembered with nostalgia) yesterday (the recent past) "Happy wife, happy life." (English proverb) "The more cowherds there are, the worse the cows are looked after" (Breton proverb) "The key to all things is determination." (Arabic proverb) "If you own two houses, it's raining in one of them." (Corsican proverb)
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