What does quondam mean?
Quondam means (formal) Former; once; at one time..
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/ˈkwɒndəm/ · adjective
(formal) Former; once; at one time..
Present him if you please in my name to [John] Henry, [William] Grayson and all our quondam acquaintances and be assured that any civilities he receives from you will be gratefully remembered by me.
This is the quondam King; Let's ſeize vpon him.
However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
For the sleeper on the couch was not Akeley at all, but my quondam guide Noyes.
A few hundred pages after faintly praising me […] the book’s narrator (a quondam critic with nothing nice to say about Charlie Kaufman) challenges me to a barroom argument about cinema.
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Quondam means (formal) Former; once; at one time..
Common synonyms include erstwhile, antecedent, anterior, earlier.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Present him if you please in my name to [John] Henry, [William] Grayson and all our quondam acquaintances and be assured that any civilities he receives from you will be gratefully remembered by me.
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