pres·ent 1 
(prĕzənt)
(prĕzənt)n.
1. A moment or period in time perceptible as intermediate between past and future; now.
2. Grammar
a. The present tense.
b. A verb form in the present tense.
3. presents Law The document or instrument in question: Be it known by these presents.
adj.
Idioms: 1. Existing or happening now; current: the present leader; present trends.
2.
a. Being at hand or in attendance: Thirty guests were present at the ceremony.
b. Existing in something specified: Oxygen is present in the bloodstream.
3. Now being considered; actually here or involved: the present subject; present company excepted.
4. Grammar Designating a verb tense or form that expresses current time.
5. Archaic Readily available; immediate.
6. Obsolete Alert to circumstances; attentive.
at present
At the present time; right now.
for the present
For the time being; temporarily.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin praesēns, praesent-, present participle of praeesse, to be present : prae-, pre- + esse, to be; see es- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
present·ness n.
- ethnarchy
- ethnic
- ethnical
- ethnically
- ethnic cleansing
- ethnicity
- ethnic profiling
- ethno-
- ethnoastronomical
- ethnoastronomy
- ethnobiological
- ethnobiologist
- ethnobiology
- ethnobotanical
- ethnobotanically
- ethnobotanist
- ethnobotany
- ethnocentric
- ethnocentrically
- ethnocentricity
- ethnocentrism
- ethnogenesis
- ethnographer
- ethnographic
- ethnographical