ADJECTIVE | all | preceding | existing or coming before |
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all | preceding, past, retiring | of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office |
Sounds | priysiy'dihng | |
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Rhymes | abducting ... zoning: 2044 rhymes with ihng... |
Meaning | Existing or coming before. | |
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Attribute of | temporal relation | A relation involving time |
timing | The time when something happens | |
Narrower | above | Appearing earlier in the same text |
above-mentioned, above-named | mentioned or named earlier in the same text | |
foregoing | especially of writing or speech | |
introductory, prefatorial, prefatory | Serving as an introduction or preface | |
precedent | preceding in time, order, or significance | |
premedical | preceding and preparing for the study of medicine | |
preparatory, preparative, propaedeutic | preceding and preparing for something | |
previous, old | Just preceding something else in time or order | |
See also | antecedent | preceding in time or order |
Opposite | succeeding | coming after or following |
Spanish | precedente | |
Catalan | precedent |
Meaning | Of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office. | |
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Synonyms | past, retiring | |
Broader | outgoing | Leaving a place or a position |
Spanish | saliente |
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