antecedent
英 [,?nt?'si?d(?)nt]
美['?nt?'sidnt]
- n. 前情；先行詞；祖先
- adj. 先行的；前驅(qū)的；先前的
英英釋意
- 1. someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- 2. a preceding occurrence or cause or event
- 3. anything that precedes something similar in time;
- "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"
- 4. the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun