antecedent in Gujarati ગુજરાતી
antecedent in Hindi हिन्दी
antecedent in Kannada ಕನ್ನಡ
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