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Past tense of orient

regular verb

The past tense of orient is oriented. The past participle is also oriented.

Forms of orient

Base form (V1)orient /ˈɔː.ɹɪ.ənt/
Past tense (V2)oriented /ˈɔː.ɹɪˌɛn.tɪd/
Past participle (V3)oriented /ˈɔː.ɹɪˌɛn.tɪd/
Present participleorienting
Third person singularorients

Oriented in a sentence

  • The workers oriented all the signs to face the road.
  • The dielectric constant of the material can, for simplicity, be defined as a measure of the degree to which the individual particles are oriented or the material polarized.1963 November, M. E. Whitten, L. A. Baumann, “Theory of Dielectric Constant Measurements”, in Evaluation of a Rapid Method of Determining...
  • During assembly, keep the tab oriented toward the slot that it will later enter.From the entry oriented
  • I am no expert in geometry, but I am suitably oriented in it.From the entry oriented
  • They are now oriented with the main campus.From the entry oriented

Meaning of orient

  1. proper noun Usually preceded by the: alternative letter-case form of Orient (“a region or a part of the world to the east of a certain place; countries of Asia, the East (especially East Asia)”).
  2. noun The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east.
  3. noun A pearl originating from the Indian region, reputed to be of great brilliance; (by extension) any pearl of particular beauty and value.

Full definition of orient

Questions about the past tense of orient

What is the past tense of orient?
The past tense of orient is oriented.
What is the past participle of orient?
The past participle of orient is oriented.
Is orient a regular or irregular verb?
Orient is a regular verb: its past tense adds -ed.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: orient (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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