Dictionary Entry
precede
precede is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.
- 2transitive verb
To go before in place, rank, or importance.
- 3transitive verb
To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object.
- 4verb
furnish with a preface or introduction
"She always precedes her lectures with a joke"
"He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution"
- 5verb
move ahead (of others) in time or space
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- 6verb
be the predecessor of
"Bill preceded John in the long line of Susan's husbands"
- 7verb
come before
"Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify"
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- 8verb
be earlier in time; go back further
"Stone tools precede bronze tools"
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