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by·gone

[bahy-gawn, -gon] Pronunciation Key

–adjective

1.	past; gone by; earlier; former: The faded photograph brought memories of bygone days.

–noun

2.	Usually, bygones. that which is past: Let's not talk of bygones.

—Idiom

3.	let bygones be bygones, to decide to forget past disagreements; become reconciled: Let's let bygones be bygones and be friends again.

[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME (north) by-gane; see gone, by¹

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by·gone   (bī'gôn', -gŏn') Pronunciation Key
adj.   Gone by; past: bygone days.

n.   One, especially a grievance, that is past: Let bygones be bygones.

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bygone
adjective
1.	well in the past; former; "bygone days"; "dreams of foregone times"; "sweet memories of gone summers"; "relics of a departed era"
noun
1.	past events to be put aside; "let bygones be bygones"