antecedent
Seed from Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025
Meanings by context
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- definition preceding in time or order
- definition someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- definition a preceding occurrence or cause or event
- definition anything that precedes something similar in time
- definition the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun