Use the adjective quondam if you need a fancy way to describe something as belonging to an earlier time. You might describe your quondam, or former, Latin tutor to your current Latin tutor, for example.
How do you use quondam in a sentence?
Quondam in a Sentence ?
- The quondam beauty queen was much more exotic than the one currently being crowned.
- Before retiring, the quondam editor trained me to take over his position.
- Readers were surprised that the quondam CEO was speaking out against the company that he helped build from the ground up.
What quondam means?
"Quondam" (which came to English in the 16th century from Latin quondam, meaning "at one time" or "formerly") certainly fits the bill.
