PAST TENSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does past tense mean? 

• PAST TENSE (noun)
  The noun PAST TENSE has 1 sense:

1. a verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past

  Familiarity information: PAST TENSE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAST TENSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A verb tense that expresses actions or states in the past

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

past; past tense

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)