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antecedent

noun
🔊/ˌæntɪˈsiːdnt/
🔊/ˌæntɪˈsiːdnt/
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  1. [countable] (formal) a thing or an event that exists or comes before another, and may have influenced it前事；前情
  2. antecedents
     [plural] (formal) the people in somebody’s family who lived a long time ago祖先；先人 synonym ancestor, forebearTopics Family and relationshipsc2
  3. [countable] (grammar语法) a word or phrase to which the following word, especially a pronoun, refers先行词；先行语
    • In ‘He grabbed the ball and threw it in the air’, ‘ball’ is the antecedent of ‘it’.在 He grabbed the ball and threw it in the air 一句中，ball 是 it 的先行词。🔊🔊
    4. Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French or from Latin antecedent- ‘going before’, from antecedere, from ante ‘before’ + cedere ‘go’.

antecedent

adjective
🔊/ˌæntɪˈsiːdnt/
🔊/ˌæntɪˈsiːdnt/
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  1. previous先前的
    • antecedent events先前的事件
    Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French or from Latin antecedent- ‘going before’, from antecedere, from ante ‘before’ + cedere ‘go’.