| Bombay |
the former name of a capital city of a state in India, on the west central coast. Bombay is now called Mumbai. |
| bygone |
gone by; former; past. |
| cosmonaut |
an astronaut from Russia or the former Soviet Union. |
| former1 |
A former thing is something of the past and not of the present. When someone is your former teacher, it means they are a teacher you had in the past. [3 definitions] |
| mark2 |
a former unit of money in Germany and Finland. |
| Negro |
a former term in the U.S. for a Black person. [1/2 definitions] |
| Negro leagues |
former U.S. baseball leagues in which all players were Black. The Negro leagues were at their peak from the 1920s to the early 1950s. In the late 1940s, Black players began to be asked to join the U.S. major leagues and eventually the Negro leagues disappeared. |
| old |
of a time past; former. [1/5 definitions] |
| past |
having happened or gone by at an earlier time; former. [2/12 definitions] |
| pension |
money paid at regular times by a former employer to a person who has retired, or by the government to a person who is not able to work. |
| Persia |
the former name of Iran. [1/2 definitions] |
| plague |
a disease that spread quickly and killed many people in former times. [1/4 definitions] |
| ruble |
the main unit of money of Russia and other countries of the former Soviet Union. |
| Saigon |
the former name of Ho Chi Minh City. |
| Santo Domingo |
the former name of the Dominican Republic. [1/2 definitions] |
| soviet |
(cap.) of the former Soviet Union. |
| U.S.S.R. |
abbreviation of "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics," the official name of the former "Soviet Union." |
| Zaire |
former name of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a nation in Central Africa. [1/2 definitions] |