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Pastime refers to a something like a hobby, sport, or other pleasant activity a person indulges in regularly for purposes of enjoyment. A pastime is not an activity that one does for pay, it is not work. A pastime literally helps time to pass in a pleasurable manner. The word pastime entered the English language in the late 1600s as passe tyme, a translation of the French expression passe-temps. Note that pastime is spelled with only one t, pasttime is a common misspelling.
Also, interestingly enough, pastime is not a truncated version of past time. In fact, it is a shortened version of pass time, which makes sense once you look at the definitions of each one of our above phrases.
Pass time = to spend time doing something. Pass + time = pastime. Pastime = an activity one spends their time doing.
In other words, pastime comes from pass + time, not from past + time.
Another common mistake is to misspell pastime as pasttime. This is a misspelling.
Pastime = correct. Pasttime = incorrect.
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