Meaning

• To change place.

• To change in state or status

• To move through time.

• To be accepted.

• In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.

• To do or be better.

• To take heed.

Meaning

• The period of time that has already happened, in contrast to the present and the future.

  "a book about a time machine that can transport people back into the past"

• (grammar) The past tense.

Meaning

• Having already happened; in the past; finished.

  "past glories"

• (postmodifier) Following expressions of time to indicate how long ago something happened; ago.

• Of a period of time: having just gone by; previous.

  "during the past year"

• (grammar) Of a tense, expressing action that has already happened or a previously-existing state.

  "past tense"

Meaning

• In a direction that passes.

  "I watched him walk past"

• Passing by, especially without stopping or being delayed.

  "Ignore them, we'll play past them."

Meaning

• Beyond in place, quantity or time.

  "count past twenty"

• No longer capable of.

  "I'm past caring what he thinks of me."

• Having recovered or moved on from (a traumatic experience, etc.).