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past perfect

 

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Noun past perfect has 1 sense
  1. past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect, pluferfect tense - a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past; "`I had finished' is an example of the past perfect"
    --1 is a kind of perfective, perfective tense, perfect, perfect tense

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Past Perfect

Part of Speech: noun, adjective

Sense 1 (noun): A grammatical tense that expresses an action completed before another past action or time.

Example sentence 1: She had already finished her homework when her friends arrived.

Example sentence 2: The past perfect is used to show the sequence of events in the past.

Sense 2 (adjective, popular): Highly perfected; excellent.

Example sentence 1: The cake she baked was a past perfect creation.

Example sentence 2: He is a past perfect guitarist, admired by many.

Sense 3 (adjective, local): Used to refer to the best or highest quality of something in a particular area or community.

Example sentence 1: This restaurant serves past perfect seafood dishes.

Example sentence 2: The local designer creates past perfect fashion ensembles.

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