Definitions for antecedent

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antecedent an·te·ced·ent

Spelling: [an-tuh-seed-nt]

IPA: /ˌæn təˈsid nt/

Antecedent is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 209 anagrams from letters in antecedent (acdeeenntt).

Definitions for antecedent

adjective

1. preceding; prior:

noun

1. a preceding circumstance, event, object, style, phenomenon, etc.
2. antecedents. ancestors. the history, events, characteristics, etc., of one's earlier life:
3. Grammar. a word, phrase, or clause, usually a substantive, that is replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later, or occasionally earlier, in the same or in another, usually subsequent, sentence. In Jane lost a glove and she can't find it, Jane is the antecedent of she and glove is the antecedent of it.
4. Mathematics. the first term of a ratio; the first or third term of a proportion. the first of two vectors in a dyad.
5. Logic. the conditional element in a proposition, as “Caesar conquered Gaul,” in “If Caesar conquered Gaul, he was a great general.”.

Origin of antecedent

1350-1400; Middle English (Middle French) Latin antecēdent- (stem of antecēdēns) going before, present participle of antecēdere to antecede; see Examples for antecedent

His scientists, his historians were all of the Victorian age or antecedent thereto.

It is not brought about by the presence of antecedent realities.

What is it that binds the consequent to its antecedent in nature?

If magnetism be an antecedent factor, magnetism may be its product.

The antecedent of this pronoun had been mentioned for the last time at eight o'clock.

This appears to be the antecedent of the modern country club.

The antecedent in this instance is not Rubicon, but the entire clause.

antecedent—That to which a relative pronoun or a relative clause refers.

Even online chat rooms have an antecedent in the exchanges of nineteenth-century American telegraph operators.

No, its head spring, in this case, was antecedent to the lake.