preceding

English

Alternative forms

• præceding (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English precedyng, precedenge, present participle of Middle English preceden (“to precede”), equivalent to precede +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• 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.

Synonyms

• prevenient
• antecedent
• See also Thesaurus:former

Antonyms

• succeeding, see also Thesaurus:subsequent

Derived terms

• precedingly

Translations

foregoing; occurring before or in front of something else

Belarusian: папярэ́дні (papjarédni) Bengali: সাবেক (bn) (śabek) Bulgarian: преди́шен (bg) (predíšen), предхо́ждащ (bg) (predhóždašt) Chinese: Mandarin: 先于 Dutch: voorgaand (nl) Finnish: edeltävä (fi) German: führend (de), vorherig (de), vorausgehend (de) Hindi: पूर्ववर्ती (hi) (pūrvavartī) Italian: precedente (it) Latin: prior (la) Norwegian: Bokmål: foregående, forrige, forutgående Nynorsk: føregåande, førre, tidlegare Polish: poprzedzający (pl) Russian: предше́ствующий (ru) (predšéstvujuščij), предыду́щий (ru) (predydúščij) Ukrainian: попере́дній (poperédnij) Vietnamese: vừa rồi (vi), vừa nãy, nãy (vi), trước đây (vi)

Verb

preceding

1. present participle and gerund of precede

Anagrams

• decerping