Was

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. First and third person singular past indicative of be. See Regional Note at you-uns.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. First-person singular simple past tense indicative of be.
  • v. Third-person singular simple past tense indicative of be.
  • v. Second-person singular simple past tense indicative of be.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • The first and third persons singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, preterit (imperfect) tense.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • A verb-form used to supply the past tense of the verb be: as, I was, thou wast or wert, he was; we, you, or they were. In the subjunctive, I were, thou wert, he were; we, you, they were, etc.
  • The forms wast and wert in the second person singular of the indicative (cf. Icel. vert), and wert in the second person singular of the subjunctive, are modern, being conformed to the model of art. The older form of the second person singular in both moods is were. The ungrammatical combination you was became common in the eighteenth century, but is now condemned.
  • Word Usage
    "It was, they might concede, yes,  for now, genuinely quite interesting; a bit of an anomaly, but we had all the time in the world and there was nothing particularly at stake - or if you like there was   something very particular at stake, the anomaly bit, but it would soon be an anomaly no more and no rush about it."
    Cross Reference
    is    are    am    being    art    been    be   
    Verb Stem
    be   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Chas    Claus    Dawes    Maas    Oz    Pas    Pause    Paz    abuzz    ahs   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    were    are    must    am    is    will    says    that    so    alone