Definition of past

"past" in the noun sense

1. past, past times, yesteryear

the time that has elapsed

"forget the past"

2. past

a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret

"reporters dug into the candidate's past"

3. past, past tense

a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past

"past" in the adjective sense

1. past

earlier than the present time no longer current

"time past"

"his youth is past"

"this past Thursday"

"the past year"

2. past, preceding, retiring

of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office

"a retiring member of the board"

"past" in the adverb sense

1. by, past

so as to pass a given point

"every hour a train goes past"

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Quotations for past

Pain past is pleasure. [ Proverb ]

Past labour's pleasant. [ Proverb ]

The dead are past feeling. [ Proverb ]

In time there is no present,
In eternity no future,
In eternity no past. [ Tennyson ]

Danger past, God is forgotten. [ Proverb ]

What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief. [ William Shakespeare ]

Let the dead past bury its dead! [ Longfellow ]

Like a dart the present glances,
Silent stands the past sublime. [ Schiller ]

The legendary tablets of the past. [ Walter Scott ]

Past all shame, so past all truth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Trust no future, however pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead! [ Longfellow ]

All my past life is mine no more,
The flying hours are gone
Like transitory dreams given over,
Whose images are kept in store,
By memory alone. [ Rochester ]

The river past, and God forgotten. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The eternal landscape of the past. [ Tennyson ]

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant;
Let the dead past bury its dead.
Act, act in the living present;
Heart within, and God o'erhead! [ Longfellow ]

Since grief but aggravates thy loss,
Grieve not for what is past. [ Percy ]

O there are Voices of the Past,
Links of a broken chain.
Wings that can bear me back to times
Which cannot come again;
Yet God forbid that I should lose
The echoes that remain! [ Adelaide A. Procter ]

Redeem the misspent time that's past,
And live this day as it were thy last. [ Ken ]

But how many moments are already past!
Ah! who thinks of those that are past? [ Lessing ]

To wind the mighty secrets of the past.
And turn the key of time. [ Henry Kirk White ]

Say no ill of the year till it be past. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Strong souls, within the present live.
The future veiled, the past forgot;
Grasping what is, with hands of steel,
They bind what shall be, to their will. [ Lewis Morris ]

Then fill each hour with what will last;
Buy up the moments as they go;
The life above, when this is past,
Is the ripe fruit of life below. [ Horatius Bonar ]

Weep no more, lady, weep no more,
Thy sorrowe is in vaine,
For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers
Will never make grow againe. [ Thos. Percy ]

When one is past, another care we have;
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. [ Robert Herrick ]

Can a mill go with the water that's past? [ Proverb ]

He lives twice who can at once employ
The present well and e'en the past enjoy. [ Pope ]

I know
The past and thence I will essay to glean
A warning for the future, so that man
May profit by his errors, and derive
Experience from his folly;
For, when the power of imparting joy
Is equal to the will, the human soul
Requires no other heaven. [ Shelley ]

You can never plan the future by the past. [ Burke ]

The glory dies not, and the grief is past. [ Brydges ]

Making all futures fruits of all the past. [ Edwin Arnold ]

Murder itself is past all expiation,
The greatest crime that nature doth abhor. [ Goffe ]

Books make the past our heritage and home. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

The past is dead, and has no resurrection. [ H. Kirke White ]

Bliss in possession will not last;
Remember'd joys are never past;
At once the fountain, stream, and sea.
They were, - they are, - they yet shall be. [ Montgomery ]

The Raven's house is built with reeds, -
Sing woe, and alas is me!
And the Raven's couch is spread with weeds,
High on the hollow tree;
And the Raven himself, telling his beads
In penance for his past misdeeds.
Upon the top I see. [ Thos. Darcy McGee ]

Too late to grieve when the chance is past. [ Proverb ]

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal Now does always last. [ Abraham Cowley ]

Misfortune, like a creditor severe.
But rises in demand for her delay;
She makes a scourge of past prosperity
To sting thee more and double thy distress. [ Young ]

No man is rich enough to buy back his past. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. [ William Shakespeare ]

Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. [ [Lucretius ]

So sad, so fresh, the days that are no more. [ Tennyson ]

Sorrow for past ills, doth restore frail man
To his first innocence. [ Nabbs ]

And over the past oblivion stretch her wing. [ Homer ]

The remembrance of past labours is pleasant.

Whose yesterdays look backward with a smile. [ Young ]

The mill cannot grind with water that's past. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is no past, so long as books shall live. [ Edward Bulwer Lytton ]

The rose is fragrant, but it fades in time:
The violet sweet, but quickly past the prime:
White lilies hang their heads, and soon decay,
And white snow in minutes melts away. [ Dryden ]

Study the past if you would divine the future. [ Confucius ]

'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours. [ Young ]

But on he moves to meet his latter end,
Angels around befriending virtue's friend;
Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay,
While resignation gently slopes the way;
And all his prospects bright'ning to the last,
His heaven commences, ere the world be past! [ Goldsmith ]

Theirs is the present who can praise the past. [ Shenstone ]

This narrow isthmus between two boundless seas,
The past, the future - two eternities. [ Moore ]

While resignation gently slopes the way;
And, all his prospects brightening to the last,
His heaven commences ere the world be past. [ Goldsmith ]

Leave off play as soon as the pleasure is past. [ Proverb ]

The best of prophets of the future is the past. [ Byron ]

It is greatly wise to talk with our past hours,
And ask them what report they bore to heaven. [ Young ]

The past is the sepulchre of our dead emotions. [ Bovee ]

In various talk the instructive hours they past,
Who gave the ball, or paid the visit lasts
One speaks the glory of the British queen.
And one describes a charming Indian screen;
A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes;
At every word a reputation dies. [ Pope ]

Regrets over the past should chasten the future. [ James Ellis ]

O days remembered well! remembered all!
The bitter sweet, the honey and the gall;
Those garden rambles in the silent night.
Those trees so shady, and that moon so bright.
That thickset alley by the arbor closed.
That woodbine seat where we at last reposed;
And then the hopes that came and then were gone.
Quick as the clouds beneath the moon past on. [ Crabbe ]

Life, unexplored, is hope's perpetual blaze
When past, one long, involved, and darksome maze:
But, that some mighty power controls the whole,
A secret intuition tells the soul. [ William Winter ]

He invites future injuries who rewards past ones. [ Proverb ]

The past is utterly indifferent to its worshipers. [ William Winter ]

Counsel is irksome when the matter is past remedy. [ Proverb ]

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past. [ Proverb ]

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us. [ Bovee ]

The time to come is no more ours than the time past. [ Proverb ]

Let fate do her worst; there are moments of joy,
Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy;
Which come in the nighttime of sorrow and care,
And bring back the features that joy used to wear. [ Moore ]

Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. [ John Dryden ]

Time past may be repented, but can never be recalled. [ Proverb ]

Where the heart is past hope, the face is past shame. [ Proverb ]

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last.
Shut thee from Heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

The mill will never grind with the water that is past. [ Sarah Dowdney ]

The present is the living sum-total of the whole past. [ Carlyle ]

Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were. [ Byron ]

What's past, and what's to come, is strewed with husks.
And formless ruin of oblivion. [ William Shakespeare ]

I desire no future that will break the ties of the past. [ George Eliot ]

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past. [ Trench ]

The earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the past. [ Coleridge ]

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling. [ Aristotle ]

Time glides on stealthily, and eludes us as it steals past. [ Ovid ]

The love of the past is often but the hatred of the present. [ Dorian ]

Habit is the purgatory in which we suffer for our past sins. [ George Eliot ]

Present unhappiness is selfish; past sorrow is compassionate. [ Joseph Roux ]

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past. [ Ruffini ]

We are always looking into the future, but we see only the past. [ Madame Swetchine ]

Let us not burthen our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone. [ William Shakespeare ]

The present holds in it both the whole past and the whole future. [ Carlyle ]

The tender grace of a day that is dead will never come back to me. [ Tennyson ]

The past gives us regret, the present sorrow, and the future fear. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed. [ Byron ]

Age and sorrow have the gift of reading the future by the sad past. [ Rev. J. Farrar ]

Suitors of a wealthy girl seldom seek for proof of her past virtue.

'Tis impotent to grieve for what is past, and unavailing to exclaim. [ Harvard ]

Things without remedy should be without regard; what is done is done. [ William Shakespeare, Macbeth ]

Correction should not respect so much what is past, as what is to come. [ Proverb ]

O'er the trackless past somewhere lie the lost days of our tropic youth. [ Bret Harte ]

To lament the past is vain; what remains is to look for hope in futurity. [ Johnson ]

And scenes, long past, of joy and pain, Came wildering over his aged brain. [ Scott ]

It is to live twice when we can enjoy the recollections of our former life. [ Martial ]

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

What is every year of a wise man's life but a censure or critic on the past? [ Pope ]

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid. [ Sterling ]

To him nothing is possible, who is always dreaming of his past possibilities. [ T. Carlyle ]

The mind yearns after what is gone, and loses itself in dreaming of the past. [ Petron ]

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past. [ T. Edwards ]

We cannot overstate our debt to the past, but the moment has the supreme claim. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Shallow men speak of the past, wise men of the present, and fools of the future. [ Mme. du Deffand ]

In the great inconstancy and crowd of events nothing is certain except the past. [ Seneca ]

He who seeks repentance for the past, should woo the angel virtue for the future. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

One's past is what one is. It is the only thing by which people should be judged. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

The earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the past; the air and heaven, of futurity. [ Coleridge ]

O sweet past! sometimes remembrance raises thy long veil, then we weep in recognizing thee! [ Mme. Louise Labe ]

Remembrance wakes, with all her busy train, swells at my heart, and turns the past to pain. [ Goldsmith ]

By diligent and laborious examination of things past, we may easily foresee things to come. [ King ]

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable. [ Carlyle ]

The promise given was a necessity of the past; the word broken is a necessity of the present. [ Macchiavelli ]

An orator of past times declared that his calling was to make small things appear to be grand. [ Montaigne ]

The past and future are veiled; but the past wears the widow's veil, the future, the virgin's. [ Richter ]

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance. [ Carlyle ]

Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils, but present evils triumph over it. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Young, one is rich in all the future that he dreams; old, one is poor in all the past he regrets. [ Rochepedre ]

I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream - past the wit of man to say what dream it was. [ William Shakespeare ]

To a father, when his child dies, the future dies; to a child, when his parents die, the past dies. [ Auerbach ]

By reading a man does, as it wore, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with past ages. [ Jeremy Collier ]

The moment past is no longer: the future may never be: the present is all of which man is the master. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Genius, like a torch, shines less in the broad daylight of the present than in the night of the past. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Children have neither past nor future; and that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. [ La Bruyere ]

Philosophy triumphs easily over evils past and evils to come; but, present evils triumph over philosophy. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Thee, Fortune, I follow; hence far all treaties past; to fate I commit myself, and the arbitrament of war. [ Lucan on the crossing of the Rubicon by Caesar ]

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, and in trembling for the future. [ Rivarol ]

The virtue of widows is a laborious virtue: they have to combat constantly with the remembrance of past bliss. [ St. Jerome ]

What is past is past. There is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Fancy rules over two-thirds of the universe, the past and the future, while reality is confined to the present. [ Jean Paul ]

By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past see how that which is to come will be drawn on. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Here is no home for a man: every one drives past another hastily and unneighbourly, and inquires not after his pain. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns. [ William Penn ]

Well does Agathon say: Of this alone is even God deprived - the power of making that which is past never to have been. [ Aristotle ]

It is children only who enjoy the present; their elders either live on the memory of the past or the hope of the future. [ Chamfort ]

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is! [ Donald J. Trump, Twitter Tweet, Jul 22, 2014 ]

The charm of the past is that it is past, but women never know when the curtain has fallen. They always want a sixth act. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. [ Dickens ]

Stern fate and time will have their victims; and the best die first, leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

True repentance has a double aspect; it looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye. [ South ]

Before the immense possibilities of man, all mere experience, all past biography, however spotless and sainted, shrinks away. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. [ Channing ]

There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband. [ Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband ]

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times? [ Montaigne ]

Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression: we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past. [ Johnson ]

A good man doubles the length of his existence; to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past existence is to live twice. [ Martial ]

As the present character of a man, so his past, so his future. Who recollects distinctly his past adventures knows his destiny to come. [ Lavater ]

Since time is not a person we can overtake when he is past, let us honour him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

When my time on Earth is gone, and my activities here are past, I want that they should bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass. [ Bobby Knight ]

Experience is of no ethical value, it is simply the name we give our mistakes. It demonstrates that the future will be the same as the past. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

In all instances where our experience of the past has been extensive and uniform, our judgment concerning the future amounts to moral certainty. [ Beattie ]

Grief is a species of idleness, and the necessity of attention to the present, preserves us from being lacerated and devoured by sorrow for the past. [ Dr. Johnson ]

Complaints are vain; we will try to do better another time. Tomorrow and tomorrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past. [ Johnson ]

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past. [ Wendell Phillips ]

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. [ George Eliot ]

The soul moralises the past in order not to be demoralised by it, and finds in the crucible of experience only the gold that she herself has poured into it. [ Amiel ]

The past but lives in words; a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale, unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

The art of nations is to be accumulative, just as science and history are the work of living men not superseding, but building itself upon the work of the past. [ Ruskin ]

The times that are past are a book with seven seals. What ye call the spirit of the times is at bottom but the spirit of the gentry in which the times are mirrored. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Faust ]

There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are infinite in the past [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream. [ Carlyle ]

It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last reached. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Not to know what happened before we were born is always to remain a child; to know, and blindly to adopt that knowledge as an implicit rule of life, is never to be a man. [ Chatfield ]

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again; wisely improve the present, it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once - through inexperience, as we now perceive - we missed that happiness we might have found! [ Cowper ]

To him who has thought, or done, or suffered much, the level days of his childhood seem at an immeasurable distance, far off as the age of chivalry, or as the line of Sesostris. [ Talfourd ]

By reading a man does, as it were, antedate his life, and make himself contemporary with the ages past; and this way of running up beyond one's nativity is better than Plato's preexistence. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever does or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless changes. [ Carlyle ]

Learn the lesson of your own pain - learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul - in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love. [ Mrs. Humphry Ward ]

A people that studies its own past, and rejoices in the nation's proud memories, is likely to be a patriotic people, the bulwark of law, and the courageous champion of right in the hour of need. [ Joseph Anderson ]

Beautiful it is to understand and know that a thought did never yet die; that as thou, the originator thereof, hast gathered it and created it from the whole past, so thou wilt transmit to the whole future. [ Carlyle ]

He is the rich man who can avail himself of all men's faculties. He is the richest man who knows how to draw a benefit from the labors of the greatest number of men, - of men ia distant countries and in past times. [ Emerson ]

Gifts of rings by lovers have always been common; but how pleasant when the husband can look to the past, to the present, to the future, with feelings of love, honor, and duty, and not as is often the case with repentance. [ Miss L. E. Landon ]

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter it is deceptive. [ Whately ]

Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down. [ Chapin ]

In the life of a nation ideas are not the only things of value. Sentiment also is of great value; and the way to foster sentiment in a people, and to develop it in the young, is to have a well-recorded past, and to be familiar with it. [ Joseph Anderson ]

But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age. [ Beecher ]

Error soon passes away, unless upheld by restraint on thought. History tells us (and the lesson is invaluable) that the physical force which has put down free inquiry has been the main bulwark of the superstitions and illusions of past ages. [ Channing ]

Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other, when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future are not come. [ Colton ]

Many classes are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the era of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the springtime of their hopes! [ C. Bingham ]

Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash - for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present. [ Colton ]

Men have their intellectual ancestry, and the likeness of some one of them is forever unexpectedly flashing out in the features of a descendant, it may be after a gap of several centuries. In the parliament of the present every man represents a constituency of the past. [ Lowell ]

It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labor of the day is gone. [ Leigh Hunt ]

How idle a boast, after all, is the immortality of a name! Time is ever silently turning over his pages; we are too much engrossed by the story of the present to think of the character and anecdotes that gave interest to the past; and each age is a volume thrown aside and forgotten. [ Washington Irving ]

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature, if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you, know that the morning and spring of your life are past. [ Thoreau ]

It is necessary to look forward as well as backward, as some think it is always necessary to regulate their conduct by things that have been done of old times, but that past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present, was itself founded on an alternative of some past that went before it. [ Madame De Stael ]

Let any man examine his thoughts, and he will find them ever occupied with the past or the future. We scarcely think at all of the present; or if we do, it is only to borrow the light which it gives, for regulating the future. The present is never our object; the past and the present we use as means; the future only is our end. Thus, we never live, we only hope to live. [ Pascal ]

A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and inflame; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess them. What is the fond love of dearest friends compared to his treasure? Is memory as strong as expectancy, fruition as hunger, gratitude as desire? [ Thackeray ]

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak? [ Beecher ]

Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven. [ James McCosh ]

I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking. I do not know just when I began to smoke, I only know that it was in my father's lifetime, and that I was discreet. He passed from this life early in 1847, when I was a shade past eleven; ever since then I have smoked publicly. As an example to others, and - not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain when awake. It is a good rule. I mean, for me; but some of you know quite well that it wouldn't answer for everybody that's trying to get to be seventy. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]

The Christian cemetery is a memorial and a record. It is not a mere field in which the dead are stowed away unknown; it is a touching and beautiful history, written in family burial plots, in mounded graves, in sculptured and inscribed monuments. It tells the story of the past, - not of its institutions, or its wars, or its ideas, but of its individual lives, - of its men and women and children, and of its household. It is silent, but eloquent; it is common, but it is unique. We find no such history elsewhere; there are no records in all the wide world in which we can discover so much that is suggestive, so much that is pathetic and impressive. [ Joseph Anderson ]

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their soul into ours. God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levellers; they give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am, I shall not pine for want of intellectual companionship, and I may become a cultivated man, though excluded from what is called the best society in the place where I live. [ W. E. Channing ]

past in Scrabble®

The word past is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters past:

PATS
(27)
PAST
(27)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word past

PAST
(27)
PAST
(21)
PAST
(18)
PAST
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PAST
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PAST
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PAST
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In past

PATS
(27)
PAST
(27)
TAPS
(21)
TAPS
(21)
SPAT
(21)
PAST
(21)
SPAT
(21)
PATS
(21)
PAST
(18)
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past in Words With Friends™

The word past is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters past:

PATS
(45)
PAST
(45)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word past

PAST
(45)
PAST
(27)
PAST
(22)
PAST
(21)
PAST
(21)
PAST
(21)
PAST
(21)
PAST
(17)
PAST
(16)
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(15)
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(14)
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(14)
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(14)
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(14)
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(12)
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(12)
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(11)
PAST
(11)
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(9)
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(9)
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(9)
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(9)
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(8)
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(8)
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(8)
PAST
(7)

The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In past

PATS
(45)
PAST
(45)
TAPS
(27)
TAPS
(27)
SPAT
(27)
PAST
(27)
SPAT
(27)
PATS
(27)
PATS
(22)
PAST
(22)
PAST
(21)
PAST
(21)
PATS
(21)
PATS
(21)
PATS
(21)
SPAT
(21)
PAST
(21)
SPAT
(21)
SPAT
(21)
SPAT
(21)
TAPS
(21)
TAPS
(21)
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(21)
TAPS
(21)
PAST
(21)
PATS
(21)
SAP
(18)
SPA
(18)
TAP
(18)
TAP
(18)
SAP
(18)
APT
(18)
SAP
(18)
PAT
(18)
TAP
(18)
APT
(18)
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(18)
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(18)
ASP
(18)
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(18)
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(18)
SPA
(18)
SPA
(18)
PAT
(18)
TAPS
(17)
PAST
(17)
PATS
(17)
SPAT
(17)
PAT
(16)
PATS
(16)
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(16)
TAPS
(16)
TAPS
(16)
SAP
(16)
SPAT
(16)
TAP
(16)
SPAT
(16)
ASP
(16)
PATS
(15)
PAST
(15)
TAPS
(15)
PA
(15)
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(15)
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(15)
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(14)
PATS
(14)
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(14)
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(14)
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(14)
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(14)
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(14)
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Word Growth involving past

Shorter words in past

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Longer words containing past

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