meaning of preterit
1. Past; -- applied to a tense which expresses an action or state as past.
2. Belonging wholly to the past; passed by.
3. The preterit; also, a word in the preterit tense.
4. a term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense
Related Words
preterit | preterite | preteriteness | preterition | preteritive | preteritness |
