past-time

adj

Etymology

From past + time. First appears c. 1889 in the writings of James John Hissey.

  1. derived from *deh₂y-
  2. derived from *deh₂imō
  3. inherited from *tīmô
  4. inherited from *tīmō
  5. inherited from tīma — “time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity
  6. inherited from tyme
  7. compounded as past-time — “past + time

Definitions

  1. Belonging to a time from the past

    Belonging to a time from the past; old-fashioned; outdated.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!
    • ... perhaps because of this it retains unhurt so much of its past-time naturalness.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for past-time. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA