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part.
Stands forParticiple
CategoriesWriting & Everyday

part. stands for Participle, a grammar and dictionary abbreviation.

Labels a participle, a verb form that can act as an adjective or help form compound tenses, such as "broken" or "running." Dictionaries use it in labels like "pres. part." and "past part."

Example: break (v.) past broke; past part. broken: "a broken window"

Usage notes

English has a present participle ending in -ing and a past participle often ending in -ed or -en. Dangling participles, as in "Walking home, the rain began," are a classic usage error. In other settings part. abbreviates "part" or "partial," while pt. is more usual for a part of a book.

More grammar and dictionary abbreviations

  • occas. – Occasionally
  • OE – Old English
  • OED – Oxford English Dictionary
  • OF – Old French
  • ON – Old Norse
  • orig. – Originally
  • pass. – Passive
  • PIE – Proto-Indo-European
  • pl. – Plural
  • poet. – Poetic
  • POS – Part of speech
  • poss. – Possessive

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