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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Bygone; past.
  2. In grammar, expressing past time; past: applied especially to the tense which expresses past action or existence simply, without further implication as to continuousness, etc.: as, wrote is the preterit tense of write.
  3. n. Time past; the past.
  4. n. In grammar, the tense which signifies past time, or which expresses action or being as simply past or finished. Abbreviated preterit

Wiktionary

  1. n. alternative form of preterite.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.
  2. adj. Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.
  3. n. The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense

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