Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Pluperfect \Plu"per`fect\, a. [L. plus more + perfectus perfect;
cf. F. plus-que-parfait, L. plusquamperfectum.]
More than perfect; past perfect; -- said of the tense which
denotes that an action or event was completed at or before
the time of another past action or event. -- n. The
pluperfect tense; also, a verb in the pluperfect tense.
Source : WordNet®
pluperfect
adj : more than perfect; "he spoke with pluperfect precision"
n : a perfective tense used to express action completed in the
past; "`I had finished' is an example of the past
perfect" [syn: {past perfect}, {past perfect tense}, {pluferfect
tense}]