bygone

Other forms of bygone

plural

bygones·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bygone

What does bygone mean?

bygone means "past events to be put aside". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bygone?

bygone has 2 syllables: by-gone. The stress falls on "by". In IPA it is /ˈbaɪˌɡɔn/.

What is another word for bygone?

Close synonyms include water under the bridge, bypast, departed, foregone, gone. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bygone a common word?

bygone is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with bygone?

3 words rhyme with bygone. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.