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We found 9 dictionaries that define the word antedates:

General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. antedates: Merriam-Webster
  2. antedates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. antedates: Vocabulary.com
  4. antedates: Wordnik
  5. antedates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. antedates: Wiktionary
  7. antedates: Dictionary.com
  8. antedates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. antedates: Legal dictionary

(Note: See antedate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (antedate)

verb:  To occur before an event or time; to exist further back in time.
verb:  To assign a date to a document or action earlier than the actual date.
verb:  (lexicography) To find earlier citational evidence for a term.
noun:  Prior date; a date antecedent to another which is the actual date.
noun:  (obsolete) anticipation
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