PAST TENSE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past

Synonyms:

past; past tense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("past tense" is a kind of...):

tense (a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "past tense"):

preterit; preterite (a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense)

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