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Preceding vs Bygone - What's the difference?

preceding | bygone |

As adjectives the difference between preceding and bygone

is that preceding is occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence while bygone is having been or happened in the far past.

As a verb preceding

is .

As a noun bygone is

a person or occurrence that took place in the past.

preceding

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Adjective

(-)
  • Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.
    • On the preceding Monday Shobana had gone on vacation.

    Antonyms

    * succeeding

    Verb

    (head)

    • bygone

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Having been or happened in the far past.
  • * 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
    • Near by he could see the thicket of raspberry canes, growing tall and close like a tropical jungle, in whose shadow he had played with the Boy on bygone mornings.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or occurrence that took place in the past.

    • Related terms

    * let bygones be bygones

    Anagrams

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