antecedent

noun

Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite

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Senses

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

preceding in time or order

a preceding occurrence or cause or event

anything that precedes something similar in time

phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience

the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun

Sense	Relation	Group	Word
1	antonym	Related & opposite	descendant
1	derivation	Related & opposite	antecedent
1	derivation	Related & opposite	ancestral
1	derivation	Related & opposite	ancestral
1	hypernym	Types & categories	relative
1	hyponym	Types & categories	ancestress
1	hyponym	Types & categories	forebear
1	hyponym	Types & categories	forefather
1	hyponym	Types & categories	foremother
1	hyponym	Types & categories	progenitor
2	also see	Related & opposite	precedinga
2	antonym	Related & opposite	subsequent
2	derivation	Related & opposite	antecedence
2	derivation	Related & opposite	antecedent
2	derivation	Related & opposite	antecedent
2	derivation	Related & opposite	antecedent
2	derivation	Related & opposite	antecedent
2	similar to	Related & opposite	priora
2	similar to	Related & opposite	anticipatory
2	similar to	Related & opposite	preexistent
3	derivation	Related & opposite	predate
3	derivation	Related & opposite	antecedent
3	hypernym	Types & categories	cause
4	derivation	Related & opposite	antecedent
4	hypernym	Types & categories	temporal relation
5	derivation	Related & opposite	antecedent
5	hypernym	Types & categories	referent