Preceding

Adjective

 * 1) Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.
 * On the preceding Monday Shobana had left on vacation.

Antonyms

 * succeeding

Verb
preceding



Thesaurus
above, advanced, aforegoing, aforementioned, ante, antecedence, antecedency, antecedent, anteposition, anterior, anteriority, anticipatory, avant-garde, chief, ci-devant, dominion, earlier, early, elder, ere, erstwhile, exordial, exploratory, first, fore, foregoing, foremost, former, front, front position, heading, headmost, heretofore, hitherto, in, inaugural, initiatory, last, latter, le pas, leading, older, original, other, past, precedence, precedency, precedent, precession, precessional, precurrent, precursive, precursor, precursory, preexistent, prefatory, preference, prefixation, preliminary, prelude, preludial, prelusive, preparatory, prevenient, previous, prime, prior, priority, proemial, propaedeutic, prothesis, senior, superiority, the lead, to, top priority, urgency, van

Alternative forms

 * præceding

Adjective

 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * Norwegian (bokmål): foregående, forrige, forutgående
 * Norwegian (nynorsk): føregåande, førre, tidlegare