AORIST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aorist mean? 

• AORIST (noun)
  The noun AORIST has 1 sense:

1. a verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation

  Familiarity information: AORIST used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AORIST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("aorist" is a kind of...):

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

Derivation:

aoristic (of or relating to the aorist tense)