Quondam
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈkwɒndəm/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Quondam is an adjective meaning (formal) Former; once; at one time.
Meaning
(formal) Former; once; at one time.
Example Sentences
This is the quondam King; Let's ſeize vpon him.
For the sleeper on the couch was not Akeley at all, but my quondam guide Noyes.
However, with the dainty volume my quondam friend sprang into fame. At the same time he cast off the chrysalis of a commonplace existence.
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.
Synonyms for quondam
Depending on context, synonyms include erstwhile, antecedent, anterior, earlier, ex, foregone.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include erstwhile, past, sometime, onetime, once, ancient.
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