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Definition: Preterit |
PreteritAdjective1. (grammar) a verb tense used to relate past action; "the preterite tense". Noun1. A term formerly used to refer to the simple past tense. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: PreteritSynonym: preterite (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Preterit |
| English words defined with "preterit": Arose ♦ Preteritive, Preterperfect ♦ Was, Weak. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "preterit": Abray ♦ Preterient. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Preterit" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (preterit), Romanian (past tense, preterit). |
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Albanian | preterit, e kaluara (bygone, history, past). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | минало време (past, preterite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | وابسته بفعل ماضی , زمان ماضی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | präteritum, imperfekt (imperfect). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | παρελθών (past), αόριστοσ (indefinite, indeterminate, intangible, undetermined, vague). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | múlt idõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | preterito (preterite), tempo passato (langsyne, preterite, yore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eteritpray pretérito (past, preterite). (various references) preterit (past tense). (various references) прошедшее время (past). (various references) prošlo vreme (past tense). (various references) pretérito (past tense, preterite), pasado (background, bad, beyond, bygone, departed, diluted, erstwhile, ex, foretime, former, gone, gone by, high, lapsed, last, off, old fashioned, outmoded, overblown, overpast, overripe, passed, past, preterite, rotten, sleepy, stale, tacky, tainted, turned, worn). (various references) preteritum (the past). (various references) geçmiş zaman belirten (preterite), geçmiş zaman (Eld, lang syne, past, past tense, preterite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "preterit": preterite, preterites, preterits. (additional references) | |
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"Preterit" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Penerbit, peperit, peterite, petrit, praestari, Praeterita, Praeterito, preterate, preterito, pretreat. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: prettier. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-p-r-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: pettier. | |
-2 letters: perter, petite, petter, retire, ritter, terret, territ, triter. | |
-3 letters: peter, petit, petti, prier, retie, riper, titer, titre, trier, tripe, trite. | |
-4 letters: peer, peri, pert, pier, pree, rete, ripe, rite, tier, tire, tree, tret, trip. | |
-5 letters: ere, err, ire, pee, per, pet, pie, pit, ree, rei, rep, ret, rip, tee, tet, tie, tip, tit. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-p-r-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: interpret, permitter, preterite, preterits, pretermit. | |
+2 letters: interprets, permitters, preterites, pretermits, prettifier, repatriate, typewriter. | |
+3 letters: intercepter, interceptor, interpreted, interpreter, interrupted, interrupter, preliterate, pretreating, prettifiers, reinterpret, repatriated, repatriates, stripteaser, teleprinter, typewriters. | |
+4 letters: intercepters, interceptors, interoceptor, interpreters, interpreting, interpretive, interrupters, interruptive, misinterpret, perpetrating, perpetration, preliterates, premeditator, pretermitted, protectories, reinterprets, repatterning, repristinate, stripteasers, teleprinters. | |
+5 letters: heterotrophic, interoceptors, interparticle, interpellator, interpermeate, interpretable, interruptible, misinterprets, perpetrations, predestinator, prematurities, premeditators, preretirement, pretermitting, reexportation, reinterpreted, repartitioned, repristinated, repristinates, retrospecting, retrospection, retrospective, spectrometric, triceratopses, uninterrupted. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 74 65 72 69 74 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. .-. . - . .-. .. - |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01110010 01100101 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101001 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e t e r i t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0074 0065 0072 0069 0074 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5084718671847586 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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