"antecedence" meaning in All languages combined

See antecedence on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ænˈtɛsɪdəns/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-antecedence.wav [US] Forms: antecedences [plural]
Etymology: From Latin antecēdentia from Latin antecēdēns (“preceding”), from antecēdō (“go before”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|antecēdentia}} Latin antecēdentia, {{der|en|la|antecēdēns||preceding}} Latin antecēdēns (“preceding”), {{m|la|antecēdō||go before}} antecēdō (“go before”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} antecedence (countable and uncountable, plural antecedences)
  1. The relationship of preceding something in time or order. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: precedence, priority, anteriority Translations (act of preceding): предшестване (predšestvane) (Bulgarian), antécédence [feminine] (French), პრიორიტეტი (ṗrioriṭeṭi) (Georgian), წინსწრება (c̣insc̣reba) (Georgian), antecedenza [feminine] (Italian), anteriorità [feminine] (Italian), antecedência [feminine] (Portuguese)
    Sense id: en-antecedence-en-noun-xRUUeUTM Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 12 21 8 22 10 Disambiguation of 'act of preceding': 67 10 4 6 10 3
  2. That which precedes something or someone (e.g. prior events, origin, ancestry). Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-antecedence-en-noun-xz7ydqGK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 12 21 8 22 10
  3. The length of time by which one event or time period precedes another. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-antecedence-en-noun-xYgeLzs3 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 12 21 8 22 10
  4. (grammar) The relationship between a pronoun and its antecedent. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Grammar
    Sense id: en-antecedence-en-noun-OJEx2WyA Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
  5. (geology) A geologic process that explains how and why antecedent rivers can cut through mountain systems instead of going around them. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Geology
    Sense id: en-antecedence-en-noun-vv87QRo5 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 12 21 8 22 10 Topics: geography, geology, natural-sciences
  6. (astronomy, obsolete) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable Categories (topical): Astronomy Synonyms: retrogradation
    Sense id: en-antecedence-en-noun-k9IspktU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 27 12 21 8 22 10 Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: antecedency Related terms: antecede, antecedent, antecedently, antecessor [obsolete]

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for antecedence meaning in All languages combined (11.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "antecēdentia"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin antecēdentia",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "antecēdēns",
        "4": "",
        "5": "preceding"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin antecēdēns (“preceding”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "antecēdō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "go before"
      },
      "expansion": "antecēdō (“go before”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin antecēdentia from Latin antecēdēns (“preceding”), from antecēdō (“go before”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "antecedences",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "antecedence (countable and uncountable, plural antecedences)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "antecede"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "antecedent"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "antecedently"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "antecessor"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "subsequence"
        },
        {
          "word": "posteriority"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "27 12 21 8 22 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1546, George Joye, The Refutation of the Byshop of Winchesters Derke Declaration of His False Articles, London: J. Herford, page lxi",
          "text": "[…] your […] darke argument […] is this breifly in fewe wordes. The office […] of charite is to geue life ergo charitie iustifieth. […] But what and if I denye your antecedence, and proue it by scripture, that faith and not loue is the lyfe of the iustified.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, London: Andrew Crooke, “Of Man,” Chapter 12, p. 52,\n[…] whereas there is no other Felicity of Beasts, but the enjoying of their quotidian Food, Ease, and Lusts; as having little, or no foresight of the time to come, for want of observation, and memory of the order, consequence, and dependance of the things they see; Man observeth how one Event hath been produced by another; and remembreth in them Antecedence and Consequence;"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1855, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Psychology, § 33, p. 129",
          "text": "[…] we are concerned with those relations of antecedence or sequence which it is impossible to think of as other than we know them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1965, Grahame Clark, Stuart Piggott, chapter 8, in Prehistoric Societies, New York: Knopf, page 165",
          "text": "[…] the phrase ‘Pre-pottery Neolithic’ has been coined, but this clumsy term carries with it an implication of antecedence to all pottery-using cultures, which is misleading, as such cultures were sometimes only locally without pottery as a cultural trait in areas where potter-making existed in close proximity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The relationship of preceding something in time or order."
      ],
      "id": "en-antecedence-en-noun-xRUUeUTM",
      "links": [
        [
          "relationship",
          "relationship"
        ],
        [
          "preceding",
          "precede"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ],
        [
          "order",
          "order"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "precedence"
        },
        {
          "word": "priority"
        },
        {
          "word": "anteriority"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "67 10 4 6 10 3",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "predšestvane",
          "sense": "act of preceding",
          "word": "предшестване"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "67 10 4 6 10 3",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "act of preceding",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "antécédence"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "67 10 4 6 10 3",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "ṗrioriṭeṭi",
          "sense": "act of preceding",
          "word": "პრიორიტეტი"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "67 10 4 6 10 3",
          "code": "ka",
          "lang": "Georgian",
          "roman": "c̣insc̣reba",
          "sense": "act of preceding",
          "word": "წინსწრება"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "67 10 4 6 10 3",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "act of preceding",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "antecedenza"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "67 10 4 6 10 3",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "act of preceding",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "anteriorità"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "67 10 4 6 10 3",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "act of preceding",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "antecedência"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "27 12 21 8 22 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich the Second, New York: Harper, Volume 2, Book 10, Chapter 2, p. 461",
          "text": "[…] it is pleasantly notable […] with what desperate intensity, vigilance, and fierceness Madame watches over all his interests, and liabilities, and casualties great and small, leaping with her whole force into M. de Voltaire’s scale of the balance, careless of antecedences and consequences alike; flying with the spirit of an angry brood-hen, at the face of mastiffs in defense of any feather that is M. de Voltaire’s.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Rupert Christiansen, Romantic Affinities, New York: Putnam, page 253",
          "text": "The literature on the French Revolution and its antecedence is vast.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, Boston: Little, Brown",
          "text": "The child she had conceived in terror, had carried in shame, and had borne in pain had been given the name of that paradisal spring which could, if anything could, wash antecedence into non-existence and torment into calm.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Howard Jacobson, chapter 11, in The Finkler Question, New York: Bloomsbury, page 271",
          "text": "He had at no time been sympathetic to Tyler’s Jewish aspirations. He didn’t need to be married to a Jew. He was Jew enough — at least in his antecedence — for both of them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That which precedes something or someone (e.g. prior events, origin, ancestry)."
      ],
      "id": "en-antecedence-en-noun-xz7ydqGK",
      "links": [
        [
          "prior",
          "prior"
        ],
        [
          "origin",
          "origin"
        ],
        [
          "ancestry",
          "ancestry"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "27 12 21 8 22 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1851, John Richardson, Arctic Searching Expedition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Volume 2, Appendix, No. 2, pp. 239-240,\nThe average antecedence of spring phenomena at Carlton House to their occurrence at Cumberland House is between a fortnight and three weeks."
        },
        {
          "text": "1949, William Scott Ferguson, “Orgeonika” in Commemorative Studies in Honor of Theodore Leslie Shear, Hesperia Supplement VIII, reprint, Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1975, p. 146,\n[…] the following year would have shown an antecedence of the conciliar year over the civil of […] fourteen days."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The length of time by which one event or time period precedes another."
      ],
      "id": "en-antecedence-en-noun-xYgeLzs3",
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Grammar",
          "orig": "en:Grammar",
          "parents": [
            "Linguistics",
            "Language",
            "Social sciences",
            "Communication",
            "Sciences",
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, Austin Phelps, Henry Allyn Frink, chapter 13, in Rhetoric: Its Theory and Practice, New York: Scribner, page 109",
          "text": "Sometimes this defect amounts to a blundering obliviousness of all antecedence. The following tearful reproof was given by a judge of the State of New York to a prisoner just convicted: “[…] nature has endowed you with a good education and respectable family connections, instead of which you go around the country stealing ducks.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1941, John B. Opdycke, Harper’s English Grammar, New York: Popular Library, published 1965, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 52",
          "text": "The pronouns who and which and what, used interrogatively, […] may refer to a word or to words in the answer to a question, but their antecedence may be indefinite or unrevealed, even after the answer is given.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The relationship between a pronoun and its antecedent."
      ],
      "id": "en-antecedence-en-noun-OJEx2WyA",
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "pronoun",
          "pronoun"
        ],
        [
          "antecedent",
          "antecedent#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) The relationship between a pronoun and its antecedent."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Geology",
          "orig": "en:Geology",
          "parents": [
            "Earth sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "27 12 21 8 22 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2005, Wallace R. Hansen, The Geologic Story of the Uinta Mountains, Guilford, CT: Falcon, 2nd ed., p. 26,\nSpeculation as to how the Green River established its course across the Uinta Mountains led Powell to introduce such terms as “superposition” and “antecedence” to identify processes by which streams are able to establish and maintain courses across mountain barriers."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A geologic process that explains how and why antecedent rivers can cut through mountain systems instead of going around them."
      ],
      "id": "en-antecedence-en-noun-vv87QRo5",
      "links": [
        [
          "geology",
          "geology"
        ],
        [
          "geologic",
          "geologic"
        ],
        [
          "antecedent",
          "antecedent"
        ],
        [
          "rivers",
          "rivers"
        ],
        [
          "mountain",
          "mountain"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geology) A geologic process that explains how and why antecedent rivers can cut through mountain systems instead of going around them."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Astronomy",
          "orig": "en:Astronomy",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "Space",
            "All topics",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "27 12 21 8 22 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An apparent motion of a planet toward the west."
      ],
      "id": "en-antecedence-en-noun-k9IspktU",
      "links": [
        [
          "astronomy",
          "astronomy"
        ],
        [
          "apparent",
          "apparent"
        ],
        [
          "motion",
          "motion"
        ],
        [
          "planet",
          "planet"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(astronomy, obsolete) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "retrogradation"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ænˈtɛsɪdəns/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-antecedence.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bf/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-antecedence.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-antecedence.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bf/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-antecedence.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-antecedence.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "antecedency"
    }
  ],
  "word": "antecedence"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 4-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "antecēdentia"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin antecēdentia",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "antecēdēns",
        "4": "",
        "5": "preceding"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin antecēdēns (“preceding”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "antecēdō",
        "3": "",
        "4": "go before"
      },
      "expansion": "antecēdō (“go before”)",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Latin antecēdentia from Latin antecēdēns (“preceding”), from antecēdō (“go before”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "antecedences",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "antecedence (countable and uncountable, plural antecedences)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "antecede"
    },
    {
      "word": "antecedent"
    },
    {
      "word": "antecedently"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "antecessor"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "antonyms": [
        {
          "word": "subsequence"
        },
        {
          "word": "posteriority"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1546, George Joye, The Refutation of the Byshop of Winchesters Derke Declaration of His False Articles, London: J. Herford, page lxi",
          "text": "[…] your […] darke argument […] is this breifly in fewe wordes. The office […] of charite is to geue life ergo charitie iustifieth. […] But what and if I denye your antecedence, and proue it by scripture, that faith and not loue is the lyfe of the iustified.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "text": "1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, London: Andrew Crooke, “Of Man,” Chapter 12, p. 52,\n[…] whereas there is no other Felicity of Beasts, but the enjoying of their quotidian Food, Ease, and Lusts; as having little, or no foresight of the time to come, for want of observation, and memory of the order, consequence, and dependance of the things they see; Man observeth how one Event hath been produced by another; and remembreth in them Antecedence and Consequence;"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1855, Herbert Spencer, The Principles of Psychology, § 33, p. 129",
          "text": "[…] we are concerned with those relations of antecedence or sequence which it is impossible to think of as other than we know them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1965, Grahame Clark, Stuart Piggott, chapter 8, in Prehistoric Societies, New York: Knopf, page 165",
          "text": "[…] the phrase ‘Pre-pottery Neolithic’ has been coined, but this clumsy term carries with it an implication of antecedence to all pottery-using cultures, which is misleading, as such cultures were sometimes only locally without pottery as a cultural trait in areas where potter-making existed in close proximity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The relationship of preceding something in time or order."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "relationship",
          "relationship"
        ],
        [
          "preceding",
          "precede"
        ],
        [
          "time",
          "time"
        ],
        [
          "order",
          "order"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "precedence"
        },
        {
          "word": "priority"
        },
        {
          "word": "anteriority"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1858, Thomas Carlyle, History of Friedrich the Second, New York: Harper, Volume 2, Book 10, Chapter 2, p. 461",
          "text": "[…] it is pleasantly notable […] with what desperate intensity, vigilance, and fierceness Madame watches over all his interests, and liabilities, and casualties great and small, leaping with her whole force into M. de Voltaire’s scale of the balance, careless of antecedences and consequences alike; flying with the spirit of an angry brood-hen, at the face of mastiffs in defense of any feather that is M. de Voltaire’s.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1988, Rupert Christiansen, Romantic Affinities, New York: Putnam, page 253",
          "text": "The literature on the French Revolution and its antecedence is vast.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, Boston: Little, Brown",
          "text": "The child she had conceived in terror, had carried in shame, and had borne in pain had been given the name of that paradisal spring which could, if anything could, wash antecedence into non-existence and torment into calm.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Howard Jacobson, chapter 11, in The Finkler Question, New York: Bloomsbury, page 271",
          "text": "He had at no time been sympathetic to Tyler’s Jewish aspirations. He didn’t need to be married to a Jew. He was Jew enough — at least in his antecedence — for both of them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "That which precedes something or someone (e.g. prior events, origin, ancestry)."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "prior",
          "prior"
        ],
        [
          "origin",
          "origin"
        ],
        [
          "ancestry",
          "ancestry"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1851, John Richardson, Arctic Searching Expedition, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Volume 2, Appendix, No. 2, pp. 239-240,\nThe average antecedence of spring phenomena at Carlton House to their occurrence at Cumberland House is between a fortnight and three weeks."
        },
        {
          "text": "1949, William Scott Ferguson, “Orgeonika” in Commemorative Studies in Honor of Theodore Leslie Shear, Hesperia Supplement VIII, reprint, Amsterdam: Swets & Zeitlinger, 1975, p. 146,\n[…] the following year would have shown an antecedence of the conciliar year over the civil of […] fourteen days."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The length of time by which one event or time period precedes another."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Grammar"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1895, Austin Phelps, Henry Allyn Frink, chapter 13, in Rhetoric: Its Theory and Practice, New York: Scribner, page 109",
          "text": "Sometimes this defect amounts to a blundering obliviousness of all antecedence. The following tearful reproof was given by a judge of the State of New York to a prisoner just convicted: “[…] nature has endowed you with a good education and respectable family connections, instead of which you go around the country stealing ducks.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1941, John B. Opdycke, Harper’s English Grammar, New York: Popular Library, published 1965, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 52",
          "text": "The pronouns who and which and what, used interrogatively, […] may refer to a word or to words in the answer to a question, but their antecedence may be indefinite or unrevealed, even after the answer is given.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The relationship between a pronoun and its antecedent."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "grammar",
          "grammar"
        ],
        [
          "pronoun",
          "pronoun"
        ],
        [
          "antecedent",
          "antecedent#Noun"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) The relationship between a pronoun and its antecedent."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Geology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "2005, Wallace R. Hansen, The Geologic Story of the Uinta Mountains, Guilford, CT: Falcon, 2nd ed., p. 26,\nSpeculation as to how the Green River established its course across the Uinta Mountains led Powell to introduce such terms as “superposition” and “antecedence” to identify processes by which streams are able to establish and maintain courses across mountain barriers."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A geologic process that explains how and why antecedent rivers can cut through mountain systems instead of going around them."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "geology",
          "geology"
        ],
        [
          "geologic",
          "geologic"
        ],
        [
          "antecedent",
          "antecedent"
        ],
        [
          "rivers",
          "rivers"
        ],
        [
          "mountain",
          "mountain"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geology) A geologic process that explains how and why antecedent rivers can cut through mountain systems instead of going around them."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "en:Astronomy"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An apparent motion of a planet toward the west."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "astronomy",
          "astronomy"
        ],
        [
          "apparent",
          "apparent"
        ],
        [
          "motion",
          "motion"
        ],
        [
          "planet",
          "planet"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(astronomy, obsolete) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "retrogradation"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "astronomy",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ænˈtɛsɪdəns/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-antecedence.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bf/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-antecedence.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-antecedence.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/bf/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-antecedence.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Wodencafe-antecedence.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "antecedency"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "predšestvane",
      "sense": "act of preceding",
      "word": "предшестване"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "act of preceding",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "antécédence"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "ṗrioriṭeṭi",
      "sense": "act of preceding",
      "word": "პრიორიტეტი"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "c̣insc̣reba",
      "sense": "act of preceding",
      "word": "წინსწრება"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "act of preceding",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "antecedenza"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "act of preceding",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "anteriorità"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "act of preceding",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "antecedência"
    }
  ],
  "word": "antecedence"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.