Preceding meaning

prĭ-sē'dĭng
Preceding is the act of coming before or being ahead of.

An example of preceding is the number one coming before the number two.

verb
6
4
Existing or coming before another or others in time, place, or sequence; previous.
adjective
4
2
That precedes; going or coming before.
adjective
3
2
Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.

On the preceding Monday Shobana had gone on vacation.

adjective
2
2
Present participle of precede.
verb
1
3
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Sentence Examples

  • We will do much more in the next twenty years than in the preceding one hundred.

  • As in the preceding, but with suckers on the tentacles.

  • I trust that my readers have not concluded from the preceding chapter on books that reading is my only pleasure; my pleasures and amusements are many and varied.

  • The whole lot contains eleven acres, mostly growing up to pines and hickories, and was sold the preceding season for eight dollars and eight cents an acre.

  • They were accepted by a population eager for repose, who had merged old class distinctions in the conflicts of preceding centuries.

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