preceding

Contents

English

Alternative forms

• præceding (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈsiːdɪŋ/, /pɹiːˈsiːdɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ

Adjective

preceding (not comparable)

1. Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.

   On the preceding Monday Shobana had gone on vacation.

Antonyms

• succeeding

Translations

foregoing; occurring before or in front of something else

• Dutch: voorgaand (nl)
• Finnish: edeltävä (fi)
• German: führend (de), vorherig (de), vorausgehend (de)
• Latin: prior (la)

• Norwegian Bokmål: foregående, forrige, forutgående
• Norwegian Nynorsk: føregåande, førre, tidlegare
• Russian: предше́ствующий (ru) (predšéstvujuščij), предыду́щий (ru) (predydúščij)

Verb

preceding

1. present participle of precede

Anagrams

• decerping