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antecedent

English

  1. 🔊 preceding in time or order
  2. 🔊 the referent of an anaphor
  3. 🔊 a preceding occurrence or cause or event
  4. 🔊 anything that precedes something similar in time
    “phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience”
  5. 🔊 someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)

Spanish

  1. 🔊 antecedente antecedent

Similar words

ancestor ascendant ascendent root forerunner agency ancestor ancestors announcer antecede antecedents antedate anterior anticipatory ascendant ascendants avant-garde base basis bellwether buccinator bushwhacker call causation