(grammar) A tense used to describe something that happened in the past, formed by the inflection of a single word, without any auxiliary verb such as be or have.

(grammar) A participle indicating a completed action or state.

The past historic tense.

(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).

(grammar) A tense used to describe actions and states continued in the past.

(grammar, of the tense) Of a tense, not pertaining to the past; in particular, applicable to both the present and the future.

(grammar) A compound tense used in literary French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, in function a pluperfect, and in form composed of the conjunction of the simple past tense of an auxiliary verb (avoir, être) with the past participle.

A tense which describes actions that occurred before another action or event in the past; the pluperfect or the past anterior tense.

plural of past participle

(grammar) past continuous