tense, n.
(tenses)
freq. cnt. 2
a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
<noun.communication>
freq. cnt.: 2
freq. cnt.: 2
tense
semantic pointers
hypernym
hyponym
present, present tense
aorist
past, past tense
future, future tense
progressive, progressive tense, imperfect, imperfect tense, continuous tense
perfect tense, perfective, perfective tense, perfect