[{"Bold_text": "adjective", "List Items": ["gone by or elapsed in time:It was a bad time, but it's all past now.", "of, having existed in, or having occurred during a time previous to the present; bygone:the past glories of the Incas.", "gone by just before the present time; just passed:during the past year.", "ago:six days past.", "having formerly been or served as; previous; earlier:three past presidents of the club.", "Grammar.designating a tense, or other verb formation or construction, that refers to events or states in time gone by."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["the time gone by:He could remember events far back in the past.", "the history of a person, nation, etc.:our country's glorious past.", "what has existed or has happened at some earlier time:Try to forget the past, now that your troubles are over.", "the events, phenomena, conditions, etc., that characterized an earlier historical period:That hat is something out of the past.", "an earlier period of a person's life, career, etc., that is thought to be of a shameful or embarrassing nature:When he left prison, he put his past behind him.", "Grammar. past tense past tense."]}, {"Bold_text": "adverb", "List Items": ["so as to pass by or beyond; by:The troops marched past."]}, {"Bold_text": "preposition", "List Items": ["beyond in time; later than; after:past noon;half past six.", "beyond in space or position; farther on than:the house just past the church.", "in a direction so as to pass by or go beyond:We went past the house by mistake.", "beyond in amount, number, etc.:past the maximum age for enlisting in the army.", "beyond the reach, scope, influence, or power of:He is past hope of recovery."]}]