a participle with past, perfect, or passive meaning, as fallen, sung, defeated; perfect participle: used in English and other languages in forming the present perfect, pluperfect, and passive and as an adjective.
Origin
1790-1800
Examples from the web for past participle
To join a word to a past participle to create a single adjective preceding the noun it modifies.
Print without a hyphen a compound predicate adjective the second element of which is a past participle.
British Dictionary definitions for past participle
past participle
noun
1.
a participial form of verbs used to modify a noun that is logically the object of a verb, also used in certain compound tenses and passive forms of the verb in English and other languages