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Definition of Precede
1. Verb. Be earlier in time; go back further. "Stone tools precede bronze tools"
Derivative terms: Antecedence, Antecedency, Antecedent, Precedence, Precedency, Precedent, Precedent, Precession
Antonyms: Postdate
2. Verb. Come before. "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify"
3. Verb. Be the predecessor of. "Bill preceded John in the long line of Susan's husbands"
4. Verb. Move ahead (of others) in time or space.
Generic synonyms: Go, Locomote, Move, Travel
Specialized synonyms: Head, Lead
Antonyms: Follow
Derivative terms: Precedency
5. Verb. Furnish with a preface or introduction. "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution"
Specialized synonyms: Preamble, Prologise, Prologize, Prologuize
Generic synonyms: Say, State, Tell
Derivative terms: Introductory, Introductory, Preface
Definition of Precede
1. v. t. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.
Definition of Precede
1. Verb. To go before, go in front of. ¹
2. Verb. To have higher rank than (someone or something else). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Precede
1. to go before [v -CEDED, -CEDING, -CEDES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Precede
Literary usage of Precede
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History by Dudley Julius Medley (1907)
"But with to precede . , e . . . , the Commons. The feeling that a grant should
only be an answer to satisfied petitions, can be first traced in the ..."
2. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1890)
"DID THE BOOMERANG precede THE BOW AND ARROW? The study of the primitive relics
... The enquiry is whether the boomerang did not precede the bow and arrow in ..."
3. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau (1873)
"In the history of the human mind, these glowing and ruddy fables precede the
noonday thoughts of men, as Aurora the sun's rays. ..."
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