Plural of past
regular plural
The plural of past is pasts.
Forms of past
| Singular | past /pɑːst/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | pasts /pɑːsts/ |
| Countable | countable |
Pasts in a sentence
- It’s an episode of characters returning to their own pasts as different people.2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from…. From the entry undead
- It's an episode of characters returning to their own pasts as different people.2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and Dragons Come Home to Roost on Game of Thrones (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the…. From the entry retrench
- They worry that if they celebrate their Arabian, Kurdish, Greek, Armenian and Georgian pasts, Turkey will seem less theirs.2001, Stephen Kinzer, Crescent and Star: Turkey Between Two Worlds, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 107. From the entry Turkocentric
- Once in America, cats too, left behind their pasts — in Bubastis and Ayudha, in Nikko and Ankara — and became somecat!2004, Georgie Anne Geyer, When Cats Reigned Like Kings: On the Trail of the Sacred Cats, page 148. From the entry somecat
- Some femmes share heterosexual pasts, some pass through butchness before they arrive at femmeness, some move back and forth between boy identities and woman identities.1998, Sally Munt, Cherry Smyth, Butch/femme: Inside Lesbian Gender, page 61. From the entry femmeness
Meaning of past
- noun The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.
- noun The past tense.
- adjective Having already happened; in the past; finished.
Questions about the plural of past
- What is the plural of past?
- The plural of past is pasts.
- Is past countable?
- Past is a countable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: past (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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