What is another word for predates?

Pronunciation: [pɹɪdˈe͡ɪts] (IPA)

Predates is a word that is commonly used to refer to events, ideas, or objects that happened or existed before something else. Synonyms for predates include precedes, antecedes, comes before, goes before, supersedes, antedates, foregoes, preexists, etc. These words are often used interchangeably depending on the context in which they are being used. For instance, the word antedates is mostly used to refer to events or objects that existed before a particular point in time, whereas the word supersedes is mostly used to refer to ideas or objects that replaced something else. Regardless of their usage, these synonyms for predates enable us to communicate more effectively and accurately by providing us with alternatives to this common word.

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Usage examples for Predates

Samuel gives the elders a terrifying description of the oppression which the monarchy would exercise upon them, a description which evidently predates the experiences made under David, Solomon, and later kings, whereas at the time spoken of the nation had suffered only too long from wild anarchy.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker

Famous quotes with Predates

  • Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.
    Debbie Harry
  • Musical instruments are among the oldest human-made artifacts we have found. ...Music predates agriculture in the history of our species.
    Daniel Levitin
  • At the root of our troubles is a cultural complex whose six main elements make up a "Six-Sided Prison" that traps us all. In Part I[,] I try to name and describe the six sides of the Prison: patriarchal attitudes, egocentricity, scientific single vision, the bureaucratic mentality, nationalism, and the big-city outlook. Capitalism and socialism are, I argue, both rooted in the Prison (which predates capitalism by hundreds of years) – though neither needs to be. (Racism, militarism, exploitation, ecocide, etc., are also rooted in the Prison.)
    Mark Satin
  • We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates our birth as a biological species and stretches back over many thousand millennia... Going further back, we share a common ancestry with our fellow primates; and going still further back, we share a common ancestry with all other living creatures and plants down to the simplest microbe. The further back we go, the greater the difference from external appearances and behavior patterns which we observe today.
    Fred Hoyle

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