Definitions for predates

predates pre·date

Spelling: [pree-deyt]
IPA: /ˈpriˈdeɪt/

Predates is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 446 anagrams from letters in predates (adeeprst).

Definitions for predates

verb (used with object)

  1. to date before the actual time; antedate:
  2. to precede in date:

Origin of predates

First recorded in 1860-65; pre- + date1

Examples for predates

It predates each of the three major faiths and had no place at any historical moment.

It predates the founding of our nation and even the landing at Plymouth Rock.

Meerson traces this scarcity of one-man performers back to a culture of collectivism that predates even the Communist revolution.

In fact, the road to revolution in Egypt predates the Arab Spring uprising.

Their crafty use of soft power, however ill-intentioned, predates the “change” in our new foreign-policy approach.

To-day no one dreams of saying it predates the fire of 1120.

In fact with the exception of the two pyramids no building in Egypt predates the catastrophe of 80,000 years ago.

Word Value for predates
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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