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As a verb, was means first-person singular simple past indicative of be.
Meanings of was
4 meaningsverb
First-person singular simple past indicative of be.
“I was castigated and scorned.”
now colloquialUsed in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is (usually third-person) plural.
“There was three of them there.”
now colloquialnonstandardSecond-person singular simple past indicative of be.
colloquialnonstandardFirst-person plural simple past indicative of be
Third-person singular simple past indicative of be.
Third-person plural simple past indicative of be
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).
Words that rhyme with was
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