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Definition of the past perfect noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

the past perfect

noun

(also the past perfect tense, the pluperfect) [singular] (grammar)

the form of a verb that expresses an action completed before a particular point in the past, formed in English with had and the past participle

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