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# bygone

«bygone» in Mova's school dictionary: **From a time long ago; past: a bygone age, bygone days** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (bygone); noun (bygones, plural)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (adjective) From a time long ago; past: a bygone age, bygone days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bygone/#m1)

2) (noun, plural) Things from the past. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bygone/#m2)

3) In «let bygones be bygones»: to forget old arguments and be friends again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bygone/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history and stories, «a bygone era» means olden times, like Victorian days. In everyday family life, «let bygones be bygones» is said after a quarrel.

### examples

- The museum shows life in a bygone age. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bygone/#x1)
- Steam trains remind Grandad of bygone days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bygone/#x2)
- Let's let bygones be bygones and be friends. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bygone/#x3)
- The village still has the charm of a bygone era. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bygone/#x4)
- They talked about bygones all evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bygone/#x5)
- They held each other by the hand exactly as the great-grandfather and the great-grandmother had done outside, and, like them, they talked about bygone days and of their golden wedding. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bygone/#x6)

### note

«Let bygones be bygones» is a set phrase. One word.

### In the corpora

- [Badger is kinder then: let bygones be bygones.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/67-willows-ch11-part3-badger-and-mole-come-home/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bygone» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bygone/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.