preceding

English

Alternative forms

præceding (archaic)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɹɪˈsiːdɪŋ/, /pɹiːˈsiːdɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -iːdɪŋ

Adjective

preceding (not comparable)

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

present participle of precede

Anagrams

decerping

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