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"BYGONES" is a plural of: bygone. |
Date "BYGONES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1842. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Bygones Let bygones be bygones. Let old grievances be forgotten and never brought to mind. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: BYGONES |
| English words defined with "BYGONES": bygone ♦ water under the bridge. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
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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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 90.7% | 39 | 55,036 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 6.98% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (proper) | 2.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 43 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "BYGONES": let bygones be bygones. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
bygones | 10 |
blackstreet bygones lyrics | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 esquecer o passado (let bygones be bygones). (various references) ce a fost (let bygones be bygones). (various references) былое. (various references) u travu zaraslo. (various references) สิ่งที่มีมานานแล้ว. (various references) 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) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BYGONES" (pronounced bī"gô'nz) |
| 3 | -ô' n z | coupons. |
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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. | |
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