Overview of noun antecedent

The noun antecedent has 4 senses

• ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root -- (someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent))


• antecedent -- (a preceding occurrence or cause or event)


• antecedent, forerunner -- (anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience")


• antecedent -- (the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun)

Overview of adj antecedent

The adj antecedent has 1 sense

• antecedent -- (preceding in time or order)