Usually means: Verb form indicating completed action.
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We found 21 dictionaries that define the word past tense:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. past tense: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. past tense: Merriam-Webster
  3. past tense: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. past tense: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. past tense: Collins English Dictionary
  6. past tense: Vocabulary.com
  7. past-tense: Wordnik
  8. the past tense: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. past-tense, past tense: Wiktionary
  10. past tense: Dictionary.com
  11. Past Tense (DS9 episode), Past Tense (novel), Past Tense, Past tense: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. past tense: Rhymezone
  13. past tense: MyWord.info
  14. past tense: FreeDictionary.org
  15. past tense: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. past tense: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. past tense: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Past tense: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (past tense)

noun:  (grammar) A grammatical form (often a verb form) that refers to an event, transaction, occurrence, or object that happened (or had happened), or existed, at some time before now (the applicable reference time).

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