past and present
History meets today
Past and present refers to both former and current times, typically emphasizing continuity or contrast across time periods.
The phrase often appears in discussions of history, tradition, or enduring relevance: The exhibit explores the city's past and present.
It can modify nouns to indicate comprehensive scope: past and present members of the committee.
- chronologyTemporal ordering of events
- eraDistinct historical period
- temporalityState of existing briefly
- epochDistinct historical period
- before and afterStates flanking a change
time · then and now · nostalgia · good old days · looking back · transformation · impermanence · modernity · generational · heritage · continuity · tradition · simultaneity · legacy · retrospection · photograph · before · memory
- Then vs Nowbefore and after, old and new, throwback, flashback, transformation
- oppositesopposite, opposites, antonym, antonyms, inverse
- temporalitytime, duration, future, now, eternity
temporal scope
past and presentfuture
Time still to come
tomorrow · posterity · hereafter · future generations · futurity