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General dictionaries General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. precede: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  2. precede: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  3. precede: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  4. Precede: Wiktionary [home, info]
  5. precede: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  6. precede: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  7. precede: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  8. Precede, precede: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  9. precede: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  10. precede: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  11. precede: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  12. Precede: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. precede: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  14. precede: Rhymezone [home, info]
  15. precede: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  16. precede: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  17. precede: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  18. precede: Hutchinson Dictionaries [home, info]
  19. precede: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  20. precede: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  21. precede: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  22. precede: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  23. Precede: UVic Writer's Guide [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. precede: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. precede: Sound-Alike Words [home, info]

Quick definitions (precede)

verb:  be the predecessor of ("Bill preceded John in the long line of Susan's husbands")
verb:  come before ("Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify")
verb:  furnish with a preface or introduction ("She always precedes her lectures with a joke")
verb:  move ahead (of others) in time or space
verb:  be earlier in time; go back further ("Stone tools precede bronze tools")

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Phrases that include precede:   che precede, precede in office

Words similar to precede:   antedate, antecede, forego, lead, preceded, preceding, predate, come before, more...


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