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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. That once was; former: "the quondam drunkard, now perfectly sober” ( Bret Harte).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Having been formerly; former: as, one's quondam friend; a quondam schoolmaster.
  2. n. A person formerly in an office; a person ejected from an office or a position.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. former; once; at one time

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having been formerly; former; sometime.
  2. n. rare A person dismissed or ejected from a position.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. belonging to some prior time

Etymologies

  1. Latin quondam (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin, from quom, when; see kwo- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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