| ANTECEDENCE | • antecedence n. The relationship of preceding something in time or order. • antecedence n. That which precedes something or someone (e.g. prior events, origin, ancestry). • antecedence n. The length of time by which one event or time period precedes another. |
| ANTECEDENTS | • antecedents n. Plural of antecedent. • ANTECEDENT n. a clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun. |
| ANTECESSORS | • antecessors n. Plural of antecessor. • ANTECESSOR n. one who goes before; a predecessor. |
| ANTECHAMBER | • antechamber n. A small room used as an entryway or reception area to a larger room. • ANTECHAMBER n. a chamber or room leading to a more important apartment. |
| ANTECHAPELS | • antechapels n. Plural of antechapel. • ANTECHAPEL n. an anteroom to a chapel or church. |
| ANTEDATINGS | • antedatings n. Plural of antedating. • ANTEDATING n. the act of dating from before. |
| ANTEMUNDANE | • antemundane adj. Being or occurring prior to the creation of the world. • ANTEMUNDANE adj. (archaic) before the creation of the world. |
| ANTENATALLY | • antenatally adv. Before birth. • ANTENATAL adv. before birth. |
| ANTENNIFORM | • antenniform adj. Having the shape of an antenna. • ANTENNIFORM adj. shaped like an antenna. |
| ANTENUPTIAL | • antenuptial adj. Occurring before marriage; prenuptial. • ANTENUPTIAL adj. taking place before marriage. • ANTENUPTIAL n. a contract made before marriage. |
| ANTEORBITAL | • anteorbital adj. (Astronautics) Referring to the period before orbit is achieved. • anteorbital adj. (Anatomy) Situated in front of the eyes. • ANTEORBITAL adj. situated in front of the eyes. |
| ANTEPENDIUM | • antependium n. (Ecclesiastical) The hangings or screen in front of the altar; an altar cloth; the frontal. • ANTEPENDIUM n. a cloth that hangs over the front of an altar, aka forecloth. |
| ANTEPENULTS | • antepenults n. Plural of antepenult. • ANTEPENULT n. the antepenultimate (third from last) syllable or word. |
| ANTERIORITY | • anteriority n. The state of being anterior or preceding in time or in situation; priority. • ANTERIORITY n. the state of being anterior. |
| ANTEROGRADE | • anterograde adj. (Medicine) Effective immediately after a traumatic event such as an external shock. • anterograde adj. (Medicine) Moving or occurring in the normal forward or downstream direction of. • ANTEROGRADE adj. as in anterograde amnesia, loss of memory for events after injury to the brain or mental trauma, with little effect on information acquired previously. |
| ANTEVERSION | • anteversion n. (Medicine) The state or condition of being anteverted. • ANTEVERSION n. the abnormal tipping forward of a bodily organ, esp. the uterus. |
| ANTEVERTING | • anteverting v. Present participle of antevert. • ANTEVERT v. to displace a body organ forwards. |