BYGONES

  

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BYGONES

"BYGONES" is a plural of: bygone.

Date "BYGONES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references)


Specialty Definition: BYGONES

DomainDefinition

Literature

Bygones Let bygones be bygones. Let old grievances be forgotten and never brought to mind. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Synonyms within Context: BYGONES

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Forgiveness

Verb: forgive, forgive and forget; pardon, condone, think no more of, let bygones be bygones, shake hands; forget an injury. excuse, pass over, overlook; wink at; (neglect); bear with; allow for, make allowances for; let one down easily, not be too hard upon, pocket the affront.

Oblivion

Unlearn; efface; , discharge from the memory; consign to oblivion, consign to the tomb of the Capulets; think no more of; (turn the attention from); cast behind one's back, wean one's thoughts from; let bygones be bygones;(forgive).

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: BYGONES

English words defined with "BYGONES": bygonewater under the bridge. (references)

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Modern Usage: BYGONES

DomainUsage

Screenplays

I believe in bygones being bygones. (Tale Spin; writing credit: Libby Hinson; Stephen Sustarsic)

Let bygones be bygones. (Tit for Tat; writing credit: Stan Laurel)

Lyrics

Let bygones be bygones, you can go on and get the hell on (Ms. Jackson; performing artist: Outkast)

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Commercial Usage: BYGONES

DomainTitle

Books

  • Billiards and Snooker Bygones (reference)

  • Treen and other wooden bygones an encyclopaedia and social history (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

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Usage Frequency: BYGONES

"BYGONES" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 90.70% of the time. "BYGONES" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (plural)90.7%3955,036
Lexical Verb (-s form)6.98%3202,518
Noun (proper)2.33%1339,140
                    Total100.00%43N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: BYGONES

Expression using "BYGONES": let bygones be bygones. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BYGONES

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bygones

10

blackstreet bygones lyrics

2
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Modern Translation: BYGONES

Language Translations for "BYGONES"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

të shkuara. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏عفا الله عما سلف (let bygones be bygones). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

минало (antecedents, past, record, yore). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

不'既往 (let bygones be bygones, not censure sb for his past misdeeds, overlook sb's past mistakes). (various references)

   

Czech

  

minulé záležitosti. (various references)

   

Finnish

  

se on ollut ja mennyt (it is past and gone, let bygones be bygones). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מ" ש"י" "י" (let bygones be bygones). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

borítsunk fátylat a múltra (let bygones be bygones), fátylat borít a múltra (let bygones be bygones, to clean the slate). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

過ぎた事 (past event, the past), 旧事 (past events). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

すぎた"と (past event, the past), きゅうじ (ancient times, office boy, old characters, page, past events, treatment with moxa, waiter), くじ (civil suit, lot, lottery, past events, political operations, political operations and ceremonies of the Imperial Court). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ygonesbay

   

Portuguese

  

esquecer o passado (let bygones be bygones). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

ce a fost (let bygones be bygones). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

былое. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

u travu zaraslo. (various references)

   

Thai

  

สิ่งที่มีมานานแล้ว. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

olanları unutalım (let bygones be bygones), olan oldu (let bygones be bygones), geçmişte kalsın (let bygones be bygones), geçmiş geçmişte kalsın (let bygones be bygones). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: BYGONES

Misspellings

"BYGONES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: begones, begonne, Blytons, byegone, byegones. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "BYGONES"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "BYGONES" (pronounced bī"gô'nz)
3-ô' n zcoupons.

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Anagrams: BYGONES

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-g-n-o-s-y"

-1 letter: bogeys, bygone.

-2 letters: bogey, bones, boney, bongs, ebons, ebony, gybes, nosey, obeys, segno.

-3 letters: begs, bens, beys, bogs, bogy, bone, bong, bony, boys, byes, ebon, egos, engs, eons, gens, gobs, goby, goes, gone, goys, gybe, nebs, nobs, noes, nogs, nose, nosy, obes, obey, ones, oyes, sego, snob, snog, snye, sone, song, sybo, syne.

 Words containing the letters "b-e-g-n-o-s-y"
 

+2 letters: moneybags.

 

+3 letters: disobeying.

 

+4 letters: observingly.

 

+5 letters: amblygonites, disembodying, embryogenies, youngberries.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Usage Frequency
6. Expressions
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Translations: Modern
9. Derivations
10. Rhymes
11. Anagrams
12. Bibliography


  

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