antecedent
— Noun
– English
～ the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
antecedent
— Noun
– English
～ a preceding occurrence or cause or event
antecedent
— Noun
– English
～ anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"
antecedent
— Noun
– English
～ someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
antecedently
— Adverb
– English
～ at an earlier time or formerly; "she had previously lived in Chicago"; "he was previously president of a bank"; "better than anything previously proposed"; "a previously unquestioned attitude"; "antecedently arranged"
antechamber
— Noun
– English
～ a large entrance or reception room or area
antecubital
— Adjective
– English
～ of or relating to the region of the arm in front of the elbow; "blood was drawn from the antecubital region"
antedate
— Verb
– English
～ establish something as being earlier relative to something else
antedate
— Verb
– English
～ be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools"
antediluvial
— Adjective
– English
～ of or relating to the period before the biblical flood; "antediluvian man"
antediluvian
— Adjective
– English
～ so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period; "a ramshackle antediluvian tenement"; "antediluvian ideas"; "archaic laws"
antediluvian
— Adjective
– English
～ of or relating to the period before the biblical flood; "antediluvian man"
antediluvian
— Noun
– English
～ any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
antefix
— Noun
– English
～ carved ornament at the eaves of a tile roof concealing the joints between tiles
American antelope
— Noun
– English
～ fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American plains with small branched horns
antelope
— Noun
– English
～ graceful Old World ruminant with long legs and horns directed upward and backward; includes gazelles; springboks; impalas; addax; gerenuks; blackbucks; dik-diks