was

verb

1. (first-person, form-of, indicative, past, singular)first-person singular simple past indicative of be.

   “I was castigated and scorned.”

2. (form-of, indicative, past, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple past indicative of be.

   “It was a really humongous slice of cake.”

   “I killed my poor father, Tuesday was a week, for doing the like of that.”

   “He saw it clear enough, now that the lordling had pointed it out. “They couldn't have froze. Not if the Wall was weeping. It wasn't cold enough."”

3. (colloquial)Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is (usually third-person) plural.

   “There was three of them there.”

   “And in the vppermoſt baſket there was of all maner of †bake-meats foꝛ Pharaoh,and the birds did eat them out of the baſket vpon my head.”

4. (colloquial, form-of, indicative, nonstandard, past, second-person, singular)second-person singular simple past indicative of be; were.

   “You was pleased to cast a favourable eye upon me.”

   “"Was you outside the Bank of England, sir?"”

5. (colloquial, first-person, form-of, indicative, nonstandard, past, plural)first-person plural simple past indicative of be; were.

   ““What happened here, Hadley?” the chief asked. “We was robbed, damn it, we was robbed.””

6. (colloquial, form-of, indicative, nonstandard, past, plural, third-person)third-person plural simple past indicative of be; were.

   “When the reflection in the glass that I held to my lips now baby / Revealed the tears that was on my face, yeah”

   “Take or be taken. Get yours or get got. It was the code of the streets and I'd lived by it. The way things was looking, I was prolly gone die by it too.”

name

1. A surname.

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of WA