Usually means: Verbal forms used as adjectives.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. participles: Merriam-Webster
  2. participles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. participles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Participles, participles: Wordnik
  5. participles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. participles: Wiktionary
  7. participles: Dictionary.com
  8. Participles: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Participles: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Participles: Glossary of English Grammar Terms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (participle)

noun:  (grammar) A form of a verb that may function as an adjective, noun or adverb. English has two types of participles: the present participle and the past participle. In other languages, there are others, such as future, perfect, and future perfect participles.
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