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present noun1. ME.
[Ellipt. or absol. use of PRESENT adjective.]
= PRESENCE 1, 2. Long rare or obsolete. ME.
A thing or person that is before one or here; an affair in hand; a present occasion. ME-M18.
The present time; the time now passing or that now is. ME.
U. Le Guin There is no past and future, only a sort of eternal present. E. Leonard The next part brought the story to the present.
b. The current month. Cf. INSTANT noun 2. E16-M17.
c. Grammar. (A form of) present tense. M16.
B. Unsworth I speak of her..still in the present I do not always remember..she is dead.
Phrases: at present at the present time, now. at that present at that time, then. at this present = at present above. for the present so far as this time is concerned, just now. in present (a) now; (b) immediately; (c) then. on the present rare at present, now. prophetic present: see PROPHETIC 1. these presents Law this document or writing; these words or statements. until the present, up to the present until now, up till now.