Verb

• S: (v) predate, precede, forego, forgo, antecede, antedate (be earlier in time; go back further) "Stone tools precede bronze tools"
• S: (v) precede, predate (come before) "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) precede, come before (be the predecessor of) "Bill preceded John in the long line of Susan's husbands"
• antonym
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) precede, lead (move ahead (of others) in time or space)
• direct troponym / full troponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• antonym
• derivationally related form
• sentence frame
• S: (v) precede, preface, premise, introduce (furnish with a preface or introduction) "She always precedes her lectures with a joke"; "He prefaced his lecture with a critical remark about the institution"