1. Past; applied to the tense which expresses action or being perfectly past or finished.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• prewrite,
• preterite,
• preterit,
• praterit,
• oreterite,
• lreterite,
• -reterite,
• 0reterite,
• peeterite,
• pdeterite,
• pfeterite,
• pteterite,
• p5eterite,
• p4eterite,
• prwterite,
• praterite,
• pretirite,
• Preaterite,
• Preaterit,
• Pretirit

• prater,
• preterition,
• preterit,
• pretor,
• pretermit,
• protura,
• praetor,
• protracted,
• Prothro,
• protirelin,
• prudery,
• preterist,
• protrude,
• praetorium,
• prather,
• protractedly,
• protract,
• praetorian,
• praetorial.

The adjective form of the word "preterite" is "preterite".

The plural of the "preterite" can be the "preterites".

The singular of the "preterite" can be the "preterite".