"anterior" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /anˈtɪə.ɹi.ə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ænˈtɪɹ.i.ɚ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-anterior.ogg [General-American]
Rhymes: -ɪəɹiə(ɹ) Etymology: Borrowed from Latin anterior (“that is before, foremost”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*h₂en-}}, {{bor|en|la|anterior||that is before, foremost}} Latin anterior (“that is before, foremost”) Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} anterior (not comparable)
  1. (anatomy) Nearer the forward end, especially in the front of the body; nearer the head or forepart of an animal.
    (botany) (of a part of a flower or leaf) Situated further away from the mainstem.
    Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Anatomy, Botany
    Sense id: en-anterior-en-adj-ITGtPYJq Topics: anatomy, biology, botany, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
  2. (anatomy) Nearer the forward end, especially in the front of the body; nearer the head or forepart of an animal.
    (phonetics) Pronounced with an obstruction located in front of the palato-alveolar region of the mouth, e.g. b, p, d, t.
    Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Anatomy, Phonetics
    Sense id: en-anterior-en-adj-~-pHEg2t Topics: anatomy, human-sciences, linguistics, medicine, phonetics, phonology, sciences
  3. (anatomy) Nearer the forward end, especially in the front of the body; nearer the head or forepart of an animal. Tags: not-comparable Categories (topical): Anatomy
    Sense id: en-anterior-en-adj-D2q4ys27 Topics: anatomy, medicine, sciences
  4. (formal) Coming before or earlier in time or development, prior to, preceding. Tags: formal, not-comparable Translations (before or earlier in time): предшестващ (predšestvašt) (Bulgarian), anterior (Catalan), anterieur (Dutch), antaŭa (Esperanto), edeltävä (Finnish), aiempi (Finnish), aikaisempi (Finnish), edellinen (Finnish), anterior (Galician), früher (German), vorherig (German), 前の (saki no) (Japanese), 優先する (yūsen suru) (Japanese), 先行する (senkō suru) (Japanese), 先んじる (sakinjiru) (Japanese), anterior (Portuguese), anterior (Romanian), предше́ствующий (predšéstvujuščij) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-anterior-en-adj-en:earlier Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 17 20 12 51 Disambiguation of 'before or earlier in time': 0 2 0 97
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: anteriour [obsolete] Related terms: auricularis anterior, past anterior Translations (anatomy: nearer the forward end): أَمَامِيّ (ʔamāmiyy) (Arabic), преден (preden) (Bulgarian), anterior (Catalan), 前部 (qiánbù) (Chinese Mandarin), antaŭa (Esperanto), etummainen (Finnish), etu- (Finnish), anteriorinen (Finnish), antérieur (French), anterior (Galician), frontal (German), vorder (German), πρόσθιος (prósthios) (Greek), anteriore (Italian), anterior (Portuguese), anterior (Romanian), передний (perednij) (Russian), anterior (Spanish), främre (Swedish), пере́дній (perédnij) (Ukrainian)
Derived forms: anterior auricular muscle, anterior cerebral artery, anterior chamber, anterior cingulate cortex, anterior commissure, anterior communicating artery, anterior cruciate ligament, anterior deltoid, anterior inferior cerebellar artery, anteriority, anteriorize, anteriorly, anteriorally, anterior median fissure, anteriormost, anteriorness, anterior pituitary, anterior pituitary gland, anterior scalene muscle, anterior spinal artery, anterior superior iliac spine, anterior triangle, anteriorward, antero-, centroanterior, distoanterior, dorsoanterior, duplicitas anterior, inferoanterior, lateroanterior, medioanterior, mentoanterior, mesoanterior, midanterior, nonanterior, occipitoanterior, posteroanterior, posterioanterior, sacroanterior, subanterior, superoanterior, tibialis anterior, ventroanterior Coordinate_terms: distal, dorsal, lateral, medial, posterior, proximal, ventral [edit], apical, apicocoronal, axial, buccal, buccoapical, buccocervical, buccogingival, buccolabial, buccolingual, bucco-occlusal, buccopalatal, cervical, coronal, coronoapical, distal, distoapical, distobuccal, distocervical, distocoronal, distofacial, distogingival, distoincisal, distolingual, disto-occlusal, distoclusal, distocclusal, distopalatal, facial, gingival, incisal, incisocervical, inferior, labial, lingual, linguobuccal, linguo-occlusal, mandibular, maxillary, mesial, mesioapical, mesiobuccal, mesiocervical, mesiocoronal, mesiodistal, mesiofacial, mesioincisal, mesiogingival, mesiolingual, mesio-occlusal, mesioclusal, mesiocclusal, mesiopalatal, occlusal, palatal, posterior, proximal, superior, vestibular [edit] Disambiguation of 'anatomy: nearer the forward end': 33 33 33 1

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