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Word "ANTECEDENT" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
Synonyms:
ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, root

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
anything that precedes something similar in time
Synonyms:
forerunner
Examples:
phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience

Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a preceding occurrence or cause or event

Crossword Clues for ANTECEDENT

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Forerunner's entente cad ruined (10)
Neat and decent reformed prior The Times Cryptic 07 Aug 2023
Prior; ancestor The Times Concise 29 Sep 2022
The word or phrase to which a pronoun refers The Times Specialist Sunday 20 Jun 2021
Bet landowners are about to give up prior
Detect Anne Duff could be a forerunner Irish Times Crosaire 11 May 2018
Former Italian writer, heading off depression after church
Prior wished to have no limits on grant and books The Telegraph Toughie 30 Mar 2017
Detect Anne Cook could be a forerunner Irish Times Crosaire 24 Nov 2015
Something preceding another The Times Concise 28 Mar 2015
Forerunner
The fool in "A fool and his money are soon parted"
A pronoun has one
Forerunner
Predecessor
Previous
Prior.
Prior to.
Preceding.
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