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Definition: Preterite |
PreteriteAdjective1. (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. |
Date "preterite" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1596. (references) |
Synonym: PreteriteSynonym: preterit (n). (additional references) |
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Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Preterite."
Crosswords: Preterite |
| English words defined with "preterite": preterit. (references) |
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| "Preterite" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Preterite" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 4 | 175,879 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "preterite": preterite-present. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
preterite | 10 |
imperfect preterite vs | 9 |
preterite spanish | 8 |
preterite spanish tense | 7 |
imperfect preterite | 6 |
preterite tense | 4 |
imperfect preterite spanish | 4 |
preterite spanish verb | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "preterite"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | минало време (past, preterit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | minulý èas, minulý (bygone, ci-devant, last, past, previous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | preterito (preterit), tempo passato (langsyne, preterit, yore). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | pretereitagh. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eteritepray pretérito (past, preterit). (various references) pretérito (past tense, preterit), 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, preterit, rotten, sleepy, stale, tacky, tainted, turned, worn). (various references) geçmiş zaman belirten (preterit), geçmiş zaman (Eld, lang syne, past, past tense, preterit). (various references) претерит. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "preterite": preterites. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-i-p-r-r-t-t" | |
-1 letter: preterit, prettier. | |
-2 letters: pettier, retiree. | |
-3 letters: eerier, peerie, perter, petite, petter, retire, ritter, teeter, terete, terret, territ, triter. | |
-4 letters: eerie, peter, petit, petti, prier, retie, riper, tepee, titer, titre, trier, tripe, trite. | |
-5 letters: epee, peer, peri, pert, pier, pree, rete, ripe, rite, tier, tire, tree, tret, trip. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-i-p-r-r-t-t" | |
+1 letter: preterites. | |
+2 letters: intercepter, interpreted, interpreter, preliterate, reinterpret, teleprinter. | |
+3 letters: intercepters, interpreters, interpretive, preliterates, pretermitted, reinterprets, teleprinters. | |
+4 letters: interpermeate, interpretable, preretirement, reinterpreted, retrospective. | |
+5 letters: distemperature, heterotrophies, interoperative, interpenetrate, interpermeated, interpermeates, interpretative, interpretively, misinterpreted, overprotective, postretirement, preretirements, reinterpreting, representation, representative, retrospectives, spectrometries, teletypewriter. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 72 65 74 65 72 69 74 65 |
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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 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P r e t e r i t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 0072 0065 0074 0065 0072 0069 0074 0065 |
| 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)508471867184758671 |
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