Definitions for participle

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participle par·ti·ci·ple

Spelling: [pahr-tuh-sip-uh l, -suh-puh

IPA: /ˈpɑr təˌsɪp əl, -sə pəl/

Participle is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 576 anagrams from letters in participle (aceiilpprt).

Definitions for participle

noun

1. an adjective or complement to certain auxiliaries that is regularly derived from the verb in many languages and refers to participation in the action or state of the verb; a verbal form used as an adjective. It does not specify person or number in English, but may have a subject or object, show tense, etc., as burning, in a burning candle, or devoted in his devoted friend.

Origin of participle

1350-1400; Middle English Middle French, variant of participe Latin participium, derivative of particeps taking part, equivalent to parti- (stem of pars) part + -cep-

Examples for participle

Youth dreams in the future tense; age, in the past participle.

The rest as in the present tense of bos, to be, followed by the present participle.

It is sat or satya, sat being the participle of the verb as, to be.

The infinitive is often used in poetry after a verb of motion where we should use the present participle.

The participle may also have the character of an adjective, the adverb either of an adjective or of a preposition.

Flown is the past participle of to fly, and flowed of to flow.

This form for the past participle of the verb to prove is said to be a Scotticism.

This form of the past participle of the verb to light is now obsolete.

The rest as the present of bos, followed by the past participle.

Ago is derived from the participle agone, while since comes from a preposition.