Onetime (Adjective)
Meaning
Belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her quondam lover".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The onetime owner of the mansion had long since passed away, leaving the estate to a distant relative.
- Her onetime favorite book now gathered dust on the shelf, a relic of a bygone era.
- The onetime revolutionary had grown complacent in his old age, a shadow of his former self.
- The onetime industrial powerhouse had fallen on hard times, its factories shuttered and still.
- The onetime queen of the stage had retired to a quiet life in the countryside, her fame all but forgotten.