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

• See also Thesaurus:former

Antonyms

• succeeding, see also Thesaurus:subsequent

Translations

foregoing; occurring before or in front of something else

• Belarusian: папярэ́дні (papjarédni)
• Bengali: সাবেক (bn) (śabek)
• Bulgarian: преди́шен (bg) (predíšen), предхо́ждащ (bg) (predhóždašt)
• Dutch: voorgaand (nl)
• Finnish: edeltävä (fi)
• German: führend (de), vorherig (de), vorausgehend (de)
• Italian: precedente (it)
• Latin: prior (la)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: foregående, forrige, forutgående

  Nynorsk: føregåande, førre, tidlegare

• Polish: poprzedzający
• Russian: предше́ствующий (ru) (predšéstvujuščij), предыду́щий (ru) (predydúščij)
• Ukrainian: попере́дній (poperédnij)

Verb

preceding

1. present participle and gerund of precede

Anagrams

• decerping