ANTECEDENT


Meaning of ANTECEDENT in English

(~s)

An ~ of something happened or existed before it and was similar to it in some way. (FORMAL)

We shall first look briefly at the historical ~s of this theory.

= precursor

N-COUNT: usu with supp

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