Usually means: Come or go before something.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word Precede:

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  1. precede: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. precede: Merriam-Webster
  3. precede: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. precede: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. precede: Collins English Dictionary
  6. precede: Vocabulary.com
  7. Precede, precede: Wordnik
  8. precede: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. precede: Wiktionary
  10. precede: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. precede: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. precede: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Precede, precede: Dictionary.com
  14. precede: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. precede: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Precede: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. precede: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. precede: Rhymezone
  19. precede: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. precede: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. precede: FreeDictionary.org
  22. precede: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. precede: TheFreeDictionary.com

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

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  1. precede: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (precede)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To go before, go in front of.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To have higher rank than (someone or something else).
▸ noun:  Brief editorial preface (usually to an article or essay)

Similar:
predate, forego, antecede, antedate, come before, lead, predecess, præcede, prevent, preceed, more...

Opposite:
follow, succeed, come after

Types:
follow, occur, result, succeed, lead, lag, lag behind, lead the way, more...

Phrases:
bullets may precede them, it may precede other things, opposite of precede, it may precede a fall, precede him, more...

Adjectives:
former, general, moral, latter, social, first, long, regulatory, few, certain, dead


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Similar:
predate, forego, antecede, antedate, come before, lead, predecess, præcede, prevent, preceed, more...

Opposite:
follow, succeed, come after

Types:
follow, occur, result, succeed, lead, lag, lag behind, lead the way, more...

Phrases:
bullets may precede them, it may precede other things, opposite of precede, it may precede a fall, precede him, precede necessitate, word that can precede park or song, precede cause, more...

Adjectives:
former, general, moral, latter, social, first, long, regulatory, few, certain, dead



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