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HISTORICAL PRESENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does historical present mean?
• HISTORICAL PRESENT (noun)
The noun HISTORICAL PRESENT has 1 sense:
1. the use of the present tense to describe past actions or states
Familiarity information: HISTORICAL PRESENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The use of the present tense to describe past actions or states
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("historical present" is a kind of...):
present; present tense (a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking)
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