Quondam \Quon"dam\ (kw[o^]n"d[a^]m), a. [L., formerly.]
Having been formerly; former; sometime. "This is the quondam
king." --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Quondam \Quon"dam\, n.
A person dismissed or ejected from a position. [R.] "Make
them quondams; . . . cast them out of their office."
--Latimer.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
quondam
adj : belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our
former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her
quondam lover" [syn: erstwhile(a), former(a), once(a),
onetime(a), quondam(a), sometime(a)]
WordNet (r) 2.0
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "quondam":
ancient, bygone, early, erstwhile, fore, former, immemorial, late,
old, olden, once, onetime, past, prehistoric, previous, primeval,
primitive, prior, recent, sometime, then, whilom
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
erstwhile(a), former(a), once(a), onetime(a), quondam(a), sometime(a)
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