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| former; onetime: his quondam partner. |
[Origin: 1580–90; < L
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quondam
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adj. That once was; former: "the quondam drunkard, now perfectly sober" (Bret Harte). [Latin, from quom, when; see kwo- in Indo-European roots.] |
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quondam
1535, from L., lit. "formerly," used in Eng. as a noun meaning "former holder of some office or position."
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| quondam | |
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| belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover" [syn: erstwhile] |
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Quondam
Quon"dam\, a. [L., formerly.] Having been formerly; former; sometime. "This is the quondam king." --Shak.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Quondam
Quon"dam\, n. A person dismissed or ejected from a position. [R.] "Make them quondams; . . . cast them out of their office." --Latimer.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
quondam
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