Associations to the word «Predate»
Noun
- Emergence
- Divergence
- Statehood
- Bce
- Advent
- Gatherer
- Millennium
- Invention
- Domesday
- Jamestown
- Christianity
- Sphinx
- Celt
- Buddhism
- Semitism
- Incorporation
- Schism
- Arrival
- Conquest
- Colonization
- Decade
- Islam
- Founding
- Origin
- Lineage
- Rivalry
- Homo
- Orthography
- Establishment
- Adoption
- Stave
- Predator
- Antiquity
- Enclosure
- Tradition
- Ceramic
- Coinage
- Derivation
- Habitation
- Turnpike
- Usage
- European
- Artifact
- Owl
- Calculator
- Shamanism
- Superhero
- Bc
- Settlement
- Civilization
- Excavation
- Civilisation
- Creation
- Judaism
- Era
- Orthodoxy
- Manuscript
- Fossil
- Discovery
- Concept
- Wharton
- Reformation
- Meiji
- Libre
Adjective
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".)
PREDATE, verb. (transitive) To exist, or to occur before something else; to antedate (the more correct term for this usage.)
PREDATE, noun. A publication, such as a newspaper or magazine, that is issued with a printed date later than the date of issue.
PREDATE, verb. To prey upon something.
Dictionary definition
PREDATE, verb. Be earlier in time; go back further; "Stone tools precede bronze tools".
PREDATE, verb. Come before; "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify".
PREDATE, verb. Prey on or hunt for; "These mammals predate certain eggs".
PREDATE, verb. Establish something as being earlier relative to something else.
Wise words
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