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Meaning of antecedent


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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  antecedent
      adj 1: preceding in time or order [ant: {subsequent}]
      n 1: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more
           remote than a grandparent) [syn: {ancestor}, {ascendant},
           {ascendent}, {antecedent}, {root}] [ant: {descendant},
           {descendent}]
      2: a preceding occurrence or cause or event
      3: anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology
         was an antecedent of modern neuroscience" [syn: {antecedent},
         {forerunner}]
      4: the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is
         referred to by an anaphoric pronoun


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