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Results for: "antecedent"

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NOUN 4

  1. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

  2. a preceding occurrence or cause or event

  3. anything that precedes something similar in time

    • “phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience”
    Synonymsforerunner
  4. the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun

ADJECTIVE 1

  1. preceding in time or order