Usually means: Existed or occurred before another.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. predated: Merriam-Webster
  2. predated: Collins English Dictionary
  3. predated: Vocabulary.com
  4. predated: Wordnik
  5. predated: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. predated: Wiktionary
  7. predated: Dictionary.com
  8. predated: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. predated: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. predated: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. predated: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (predate)

verb:  To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast "postdate".)
verb:  (transitive) To exist or to occur before something else; to antedate.
noun:  A publication, such as a newspaper or magazine, that is issued with a printed date later than the date of issue.
verb:  (ambitransitive) To prey upon something.
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