Looking for the meaning or definition of the word antecedent? That's all it means.
something that came before something else and may have influenced or caused it
ancestor, ascendant, ascendent, antecedent, root(noun)someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
antecedent(noun)a preceding occurrence or cause or event
antecedent, forerunner(noun)anything that precedes something similar in time
"phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"
antecedent(adj)the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
antecedent(adj)preceding in time or order
going before another in time or orderI'd like to follow up on an antecedent question from another reporter
someone or something responsible for a resultwhat are the antecedents of the American Revolutionary War?
something belonging to an earlier time from which something else was later developedthe typewriter is the antecedent of the computer keyboard
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