Usually means: Helps main verbs express tense, mood.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. auxiliary verb: Merriam-Webster
  2. auxiliary verb: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. auxiliary verb: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. auxiliary verb: Collins English Dictionary
  5. auxiliary verb: Vocabulary.com
  6. auxiliary verb: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. auxiliary-verb, auxiliary verb: Wiktionary
  8. auxiliary verb: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. auxiliary verb: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. auxiliary verb: Dictionary.com
  11. Auxiliary verb: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. auxiliary verb: FreeDictionary.org
  13. auxiliary verb: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. auxiliary verb: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. auxiliary verb: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  2. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Auxiliary verb: Lexicon of Linguistics

Definitions from Wiktionary (auxiliary verb)

noun:  (grammar) A verb that accompanies the main verb in a clause in order to make distinctions in tense, mood, voice or aspect.

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