{
  "id": "past.temporal",
  "term": "past",
  "sense": "temporal",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 2,
  "arena": "past.temporal",
  "domain": "temporal",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "the time that is before now",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "time.dimension",
      "previous.temporal"
    ],
    "interaction": "time.dimension together with previous.temporal is the time that is before now",
    "novel_properties": [
      "relative ordering",
      "non‑present status",
      "temporal distance"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The light from the Andromeda Galaxy takes 2.5 million years to reach Earth, showing a past state of the galaxy.",
      "domain": "astronomy"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Treaty of Versailles, signed in 1919, formally ended World War I and reshaped European borders.",
      "domain": "history"
    },
    {
      "text": "The Python 2 programming language was officially deprecated in 2020, marking its transition to legacy status.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "time.dimension",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "future.temporal",
      "note": "contrasts‑with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "ago.temporal",
    "hindsight-is-twenty-twenty.retrospection",
    "overshoot.dynamics",
    "remember.cognitive",
    "scar.residual"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "past",
    "pasts"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-past.temporal"
}