Dictionary definition · antecedent
noun
- someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- 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
adjective
- preceding in time or order
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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).