bygone
adjective/ˈbaɪɡɒn/
/ˈbaɪɡɔːn/
[only before noun]- happening or existing a long time ago
- a bygone age/era
- The family story was that, in bygone days, he had been a rich farmer in Australia.
- The horse and cart belongs to a bygone era.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBygone is used with these nouns:- age
- era
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