PRESENT TENSE

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does present tense mean? 

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

1. a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESENT TENSE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

present; present tense

Hypernyms ("present 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 "present tense"):

historical present (the use of the present tense to describe past actions or states)