baɪ pɑːst pæst pɑːst pæst pɑːst pæst pɹɪˈsiːdɪŋ ɹəˈtaɪ(ə)ɹɪŋ ˈjɛstəjɪə ˈjɛstərjɪər so as to pass a given point every hour a train goes past of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office a retiring member of the board earlier than the present time; no longer current time past his youth is past this past Thursday the past year a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past the time that has elapsed forget the past a earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret) reporters dug into the candidate's past