PRESENT PERFECT

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does present perfect mean? 

• PRESENT PERFECT (noun)
  The noun PRESENT PERFECT has 1 sense:

1. a perfective tense used to express action completed in the present

  Familiarity information: PRESENT PERFECT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESENT PERFECT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A perfective tense used to express action completed in the present

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

present perfect; present perfect tense

Context example:

'I have finished' is an example of the present perfect

Hypernyms ("present perfect" is a kind of...):

perfect; perfect tense; perfective; perfective tense (a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect))

 Context examples 

That you may have less difficulty in believing this boast, of my present perfect indifference, she continued, I will farther tell you, that there was a period in the early part of our acquaintance, when I did like him, when I was very much disposed to be attached to him—nay, was attached—and how it came to cease, is perhaps the wonder.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)