antecedent

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antecedent Definition

• (a) preceding in time or order
• (n) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
• (n) a preceding occurrence or cause or event
• (n) anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"
• (n) the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun

antecedent Synonyms

• ancestor
• antecedent
• ascendant
• ascendent
• forerunner
• preceding
• root