antecedents
Meaning of antecedents
- 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.
late Middle English: from Old French or from Latin antecedent- ‘going before’, from antecedere, from ante ‘before’ + cedere ‘go’.
Information about antecedents
- It is a name.
- The singular form of antecedents is: antecedent.
- Languages in which antecedents is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of antecedents
an-tecedents
- It consists of 2 syllables and 11 chars.
- antecedents is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
antecedents synonyms
Meaning a person or thing that comes before another of the same kind; a forerunner:
Meaning a person or thing that precedes the coming or development of someone or something else:
Meaning a person who held a job or office before the current holder:
Meaning a person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended:
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:
antecedents antonyms
Meaning a person, plant, or animal that is descended from a particular ancestor:
Words that rhyme with antecedents
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