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List of meaning for erstwhile

in the past

erstwhile(a), former(a), old, onetime(a), one-time(a), quondam(a), sometime(a)(adverb)

belonging to some prior time

"erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover"

once, formerly, at one time, erstwhile, erst(adverb)

at a previous time

"at one time he loved her"; "her erstwhile writing"; "she was a dancer once";

having been such at some previous time

my erstwhile friend ignored me when I ran into her at the reunion

at an earlier or previous time

there's now a store where erstwhile lay green and pleasant pastures

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