present

CEFRA2

/ˈpɹɛz.ənt/

adjective · noun · verb

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01
adjective
Existing or happening now.
02
noun
A gift given to someone.

Examples

I am not satisfied with the present situation.
I would like to give him a present for his birthday.

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Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 5
Parts of speech: 3
Citations: 5
Synonyms: 5

Also pronounced

/ˈpɹez.ənt/
/pɹiˈzɛnt/

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adjective

Extra meanings

Having an immediate effect (of a medicine, poison etc.); fast-acting.
Located in the immediate vicinity.

verb

Extra meaning

To give, show, or introduce something publicly.

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You shall have a nice present.
The barbaric practice continues to the present day.
The present manager has been here longer than the last one.

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Amongſt this number of Cordials and Alteratiues, J doe not find a more preſent remedy, then a cup of wine, or ſtrong drinke, and if it be ſoberly and opportunely vſed.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Alteratiues and Corials, corroborating, reſoluing the reliques, and mending the Temperament”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy: […...
All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
“A very welcome, kind, useful present, that means to the parish. By the way, Hopkins, let this go no further. We don't want the tale running round that a rich person has arrived. Churchill, my dear fellow, we have such greedy sharks, and wolves in lamb's clothing.[…]”
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
Sign me a present pardon for my brother,
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]
An ambassador[…]desires a present audience.
1636, Philip Massinger, The Bashful Lover

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Origin

adjective

From Middle English present, from Old French present, from Latin praesent-, praesens, present participle of praeesse (“to be present”), from Latin prae- (“pre-”) + esse (“to be”).

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adjective

At the conference, the scientist will blank her new research findings.