PRESENT TENSE

I. (noun)

Meaning:

A verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking

Synonyms:

present; present tense

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("present tense" is a kind of...):

tense (a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "present tense"):

historical present (the use of the present tense to describe past actions or states)