antecedent
Meaning of antecedent
noun
- a thing that existed before or logically precedes another.
some antecedents to the African novel might exist in Africa's oral traditions
- a person's ancestors or family and social background.
her early life and antecedents have been traced
- an earlier word, phrase, or clause to which another word (especially a following relative pronoun) refers back.
- the statement contained in the ‘if’ clause of a conditional proposition.
- preceding in time or order; previous or pre-existing.
antecedent events
- denoting or counting as an antecedent.
late Middle English: from Old French or from Latin antecedent- ‘going before’, from antecedere, from ante ‘before’ + cedere ‘go’.
Information about antecedent
- The plural form of antecedent is: antecedents.
- Languages in which antecedent is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of antecedent
an-tecedent
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- antecedent is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
antecedent synonyms
Meaning preceding:
Meaning ancestor:
ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, root
Meaning forerunner:
Meaning a person or thing that comes before another of the same kind; a forerunner:
Meaning a person who held a job or office before the current holder:
Meaning a member of the past generations of one's family or people; an ancestor:
Meaning an ancestor:
Meaning a person who originates a cultural or intellectual movement:
Meaning a group of one or more parents and their children living together as a unit:
Meaning the goods or merchandise kept on the premises of a shop or warehouse and available for sale or distribution:
Meaning one's family or ethnic descent:
Meaning an act of moving downwards, dropping, or falling:
Meaning a line of descent traced continuously from an ancestor:
Meaning the part of a plant which attaches it to the ground or to a support, typically underground, conveying water and nourishment to the rest of the plant via numerous branches and fibres:
Meaning the action of extracting something, especially using effort or force:
Meaning the emergence of a baby or other young from the body of its mother; the start of life as a physically separate being:
Meaning the study of past events, particularly in human affairs:
Meaning the time before the moment of speaking or writing:
Meaning the part of a picture, scene, or design that forms a setting for the main figures or objects, or appears furthest from the viewer:
Meaning a thing constituting a piece of evidence about the past, especially an account kept in writing or some other permanent form:
Meaning the fact of being the child of a particular parent or parents:
Meaning existing or occurring before in time or order:
Meaning happening or done before the usual or expected time:
Meaning existing or coming before in time, order, or importance:
Meaning just mentioned or stated; preceding:
Meaning preceding something in time, development, or position; preliminary:
Meaning nearer the front, especially in the front of the body, or nearer to the head or forepart:
antecedent antonyms
Meaning a person, plant, or animal that is descended from a particular ancestor:
Meaning comparative of late (adjective):
Meaning coming after something in time; following:
Translation of antecedent
- Spanish: antecedente
- Portuguese: antecedente
- French: antécédent
Words that rhyme with antecedent
Dent, dent, Decadent, Friadent, cadent, decadent, intercadent, noncadent, nondecadent, overdecadent, semidecadent, undecadent, waddent, cedent, credent, decedent, excedent, exedent, intercedent, noncredent, nonprecedent, precedent, proprecedent, recedent, retrocedent, sedent, succedent, Occident, President, PreviDent, Trident, accident, ambident, assident, bident, coincident, confident, copresident, coresident, decident, diffident, disoccident, dissident, divident, duplicident, eident, evident, hyperconfident, ident, improvident
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