0 belonging to or happening in a past time: --
a bygone era
1 used to tell someone that they should forget about unpleasant things that happened in the past, and especially to forgive and forget something bad that someone has done to them : --
In bygone years some grasping owners wished to install machinery to make vast fortunes for themselves.
They belong to a bygone stage of civilisation.
Entrance charges to museums and galleries are now one of the few discredited survivors of this philosophy of a bygone age.
Many of our problems arise directly from the competitive element in transport in bygone years.
Both of them were seedy and rundown, built for a bygone age and entirely unsuited to modern medical care.
I think that the time has come to re-examine that cosy hangover from bygone days.
The pressures of scarcely veiled threats of social ostracism which we had fondly thought belonged to a bygone age were everywhere apparent in this by-election.
In the same vein, the study of bygone verbal cultures benefits from our knowledge of present-day verbal cultures.
