past1 Pronunciation: /pæst; pɑːst/Translate past | into French | into German | into Italian Spanish translation of pastadj 1 a (former) anterior; [life] pasado; (old) antiguo b (most recent) [week/month/year] último c (finished, gone) (pred) what's past is past = lo pasado, pasado 2 [Ling] the past tense = el pasado, el pretéritopast in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of past in the British & World English dictionary Definition of past in the US English dictionary