Definition of present:

• To Introduce into the presence of a superior; to exhibit; to give; to offer; to point, as a gun, to another; to nominate to an ecclesiastical benefice; to lay before a public body or a court; to indict. To present arms, to hold them out in token of respect.
• To set or place in the presence of; to introduce to a superior; to exhibit to view; to give to formally and ceremoniously; to favour with a gift; to exhibit; to appoint to a church living; to point or direct, as a gun before discharging it; to salute by holding out arms, as a company of soldiers.
• What is written in a deed of conveyance or other instrument.
• A donation or gift.
• That which is given or presented; a gift.
• Being in a certain place; being before the face or near; being now in view or under consideration; being at this time; ready at hand; favourably attentive; not absent in mind. Present tense, the form of a verb which expresses action or being in the present time. The present, the present time.
• Being in a certain place; being in sight or at hand; not absent; being in company; not past or future; favourably attentive; not absent of mind; attentive.

Usage examples for present

1. I should like John Gordon to be present, because he would see how the kind of thing is done.  An Old Man's Love by Anthony Trollope

2. No, I have a right to be present.  By Wit of Woman by Arthur W. Marchmont

3. Do well your present work, and wait with patience.  The Sun's Babies by Edith Howes

4. " Good- bye," he said, " for the present."  The Good Comrade by Una L. Silberrad