preceding

Academic Word List, sublist 6.

About 20.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Occurring before or in front of something else, in time, place, rank or sequence.

   On the preceding Monday Shobana had gone on vacation.

2. verb present participle and gerund of precede

Similar words

previous foregoing prior antecedent above-mentioned above-named preexistent prevenient prefatorial past

Often followed by

the chapter section year chapters paragraph pages discussion one

Word family

precede preceded precedence precedent precedes