preceding
Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.
Example
“On the preceding Monday Shobana had gone on vacation.”
Antonyms
- succeeding
Related words
- precedingly
Word history
From Middle English "preceden" (to precede).
Where this comes from
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