Definition of Pluperfect in English :

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Pluperfect

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Noun

1. past perfect, past perfect tense, pluperfect, pluperfect tense

a perfective tense used to express action completed in the past

Example Sentences:
'I had finished' is an example of the past perfect'

Adjective

2. pluperfect

more than perfect

Example Sentences:
'he spoke with pluperfect precision'

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Pluperfect

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adjective, noun
grammar another term for past perfect

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Pluperfect

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adjective
1.  Grammar
designating or of the past perfect tense in any of certain languages corresponding to the past perfect in English
2. 
exceptionally perfect
sometimes used as an intensive
noun
3. 
the past perfect tense
4. 
a verb form in this tense

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Pluperfect

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adj.
1. Of or being a verb tense used to express action completed before a specified or implied past time.
2. More than perfect; supremely accomplished; ideal: "He has won a reputation as [a] pluperfect bureaucrat" (New York Times).
n.
1. The pluperfect tense, formed in English with the past participle of a verb and the auxiliary had, as had learned in the sentence He had learned to type by the end of the semester. Also called past perfect.
2. A verb or form in the pluperfect tense.

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