Usually means: Past perfect tense in grammar.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word pluperfect:

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  1. pluperfect: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pluperfect: Merriam-Webster
  3. pluperfect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pluperfect: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pluperfect: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pluperfect: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pluperfect, pluperfect: Wordnik
  8. pluperfect, the pluperfect: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pluperfect: Wiktionary
  10. pluperfect: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pluperfect: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pluperfect: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pluperfect, pluperfect: Dictionary.com
  14. pluperfect: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pluperfect: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pluperfect: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pluperfect: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pluperfect: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pluperfect: Rhymezone
  20. Pluperfect: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pluperfect: FreeDictionary.org
  22. pluperfect: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. pluperfect: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See pluperfects as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (pluperfect)

adjective:  More than perfect, utterly perfect, ideal.
adjective:  (grammar) Pertaining to action completed before another action or event in the past, past perfect.
adjective:  (mathematics) Relating to a certain type of graph, complying with the theorem (pluperfect graph theorem) discovered by D. R. Fulkerson in 1970.
adjective:  (mathematics) Synonym of multiperfect
adjective:  (informal) Used as an intensifier in various interjections.
noun:  The pluperfect tense, the past perfect.
noun:  A verb in this tense.

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