antecedent in Gujarati ગુજરાતી
antecedent in Hindi हिन्दी
antecedent in Konkani कोंकणी
antecedent in Marathi मराठी
antecedent in Sindhi سنڌي
antecedent in Tamil தமிழ்
antecedent in English
- antecedent⇄adj. 1. coming or happening before; preceding; previous.
Ex. The cave men lived in a period of history antecedent to written records.
(SYN) prior, earlier.
2. functioning as an antecedent.
Ex. an antecedent clause. - antecedent⇄antecedent, noun, adjective.
- antecedent⇄expr. antecedents,
a. ancestors; ancestry.
Ex. He has Scottish antecedents.
b. the past life or history.
Ex. No one knew the antecedents of the mysterious stranger. - antecedent⇄noun 1. any word, phrase, or clause to which a word, especially a pronoun, occurring later in a sentence, refers. In ""This is the house that Jack built,"" ?house is the antecedent of ?that. In ""I remember the house where I was born,"" ?house is the ant