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单词 quondam
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Definition of quondam in English:

quondam

adjective ˈkwɒndamˈkwɒndəm
formal
  • attributive That once was; former.

    quondam dissidents joined the establishment
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Whiston's openness in this regard is likely one of the reasons Newton eventually broke with his quondam disciple.
    • To this quondam mid-Warwickshire suburbanite, who liked to think that his Cotswold relatives conferred a kind of rusticity, it brought back his own first encounter with Bristol some time in the spring of 1956, just turned seventeen.
    • According to his brief official biography, this quondam insurance broker entered the House of Lords a year after inheriting a title from his grandfather, in 1986.
    • Thus they would not have mindlessly and naively misjudged the imperialist treaty diplomacy of the Soviet Union, quondam ally of Nazi Germany.
    Synonyms
    one-time, erstwhile, sometime, late, as was

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin, 'formerly'.

 
 

Definition of quondam in US English:

quondam

adjective
formal
  • attributive That once was; former.

    quondam dissidents joined the establishment
    its quondam popularity
    Example sentencesExamples
    • To this quondam mid-Warwickshire suburbanite, who liked to think that his Cotswold relatives conferred a kind of rusticity, it brought back his own first encounter with Bristol some time in the spring of 1956, just turned seventeen.
    • Whiston's openness in this regard is likely one of the reasons Newton eventually broke with his quondam disciple.
    • According to his brief official biography, this quondam insurance broker entered the House of Lords a year after inheriting a title from his grandfather, in 1986.
    • Thus they would not have mindlessly and naively misjudged the imperialist treaty diplomacy of the Soviet Union, quondam ally of Nazi Germany.
    Synonyms
    one-time, erstwhile, sometime, late, as was

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin, ‘formerly’.

 
 
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