What does preceding mean?
Definitions for preceding
prɪˈsi dɪŋpre·ced·ing
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Princeton's WordNet
preceding(a)(adj)
existing or coming before
past(a), preceding(a), retiring(a)(adj)
of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office
"a retiring member of the board"
Wiktionary
preceding(Adjective)
Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.
On the preceding Monday Shobana had left on vacation.
Webster Dictionary
Preceding
of Precede
Preceding(adj)
going before; -- opposed to following
Preceding(adj)
in the direction toward which stars appear to move. See Following, 2
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of preceding in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of preceding in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of preceding in a Sentence
This isn't a knock on President Obama, this is a knock on many presidents preceding me. It's a knock on everybody.
A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time.
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence ... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
No mention was ever made about these three claims in the many preceding years, not even during the Ambassadors confirmation process, when federal investigators were thoroughly pursuing input about his background, both personal and professional.
Her fears that her symptoms over the preceding months before she died were cancer-related were proved right. The messages from Bronte are all her own words, and I believe that’s more powerful for people to understand what she went through. I want to see changes and action now.
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