bygone

/ˈbaɪˌɡɔn/

belonging to an earlier time

bygone in a sentence

“These tools are relics of a bygone era.”

Middle English by + gone (gone by, past)

Related Words

epoch

a particular period of time marked by distinctive features

era

a long and distinct period of history

aeon

an indefinitely long period of time; an age

millennium

a period of a thousand years

antiquity

the ancient past, especially before the Middle Ages

posterity

all future generations of people