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past time

past time is the alternative form of past-time.

Meaning of past-time

Adjective

past-time

  1. (dated, obsolete) Belonging to a time from the past; old-fashioned; outdated.
    • These past-time inns, the outcome of the picturesque coaching days, when they have not been altered or improved to suit modern requirements, how they delight the eye of the nineteenth-century traveller along the old high roads!1889, James John Hissey, A Tour in a Phaeton Through the Eastern Counties, page 89

Questions about past time

What is past time the alternative form of?
Past time is the alternative form of past-time.

Words near past time in the dictionary

  1. past simple
  2. past simples
  3. past tense
  4. past tenses
  5. past the point of
  6. past time
  7. past-due
  8. past-life
  9. past-master
  10. past-masters
  11. past-participial

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