ETYM From Pass.
(Homonym: passed).
1. Earlier than the present time; no longer current.
2. (Grammar) A verb tense or other construction referring to events or states that existed at some previous time.
3. Of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; SYN. preceding, retiring.

So as to reach and go beyond a point near at hand

Množina: pasts

1. A earlier period in someone's life (especially one that they have reason to keep secret)
2. A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past; SYN. past tense.
3. The time that has elapsed; SYN. past times, yesteryear, yore.

1. Beyond the age for or of; after
2. At the farther side of; beyond; in a course or direction going close to and then beyond
3. Beyond the capacity, range, or sphere of

Množina: past labours

Množina: past lives

Množina: past masters

1. Someone who has long and thorough experience in a given activity.
2. Someone who was formerly a master.

Množina: past participles

A participle that expresses completed action; SYN. perfect participle.
Form of the verb, see participle.

Of, relating to, or constituting a verb tense that is traditionally formed in English with had and denotes an action or state as completed at or before a past time spoken of

Množina: past perfects

A perfective tense used to express action completed in the past; SYN. past perfect tense, pluperfect, pluferfect tense.

Množina: past performances

Množina: past progressives

A progressive tense used to describe on-going action in the past; SYN. past progressive tense.

Množina: past tenses

In grammar, the form a verb takes to express action in the past. The past tense of regular English verbs is formed by the addition of -ed (climb, climbed).
There are many irregular verbs, which form their past tenses in a variety of ways (buy, bought; shine, shone; keep, kept).

Množina: past works