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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
preceding
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
immediately before/preceding sth
▪ I can’t remember what happened immediately before the crash.
the previous/preceding chapter
▪ The method is described in the previous chapter.
the previous/preceding generation
▪ He was the equal of any of the previous generation of great explorers.
the previous/preceding month (=the month before)
▪ Sales were lower than in the previous month.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He had been arrested at least fifteen times in the preceding five years.
▪ In the preceding section of the poem, Whitman is talking about how important it is to live in the present.
▪ The preceding chapters have described several key events in recent French history.
▪ The company made more profit in that one month than it made in the whole of the preceding year.
▪ This seems to contradict the argument in the preceding paragraph.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Preceding

Precede \Pre*cede"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Preceded; p. pr. & vb. n. Preceding.] [L. praecedere, praecessum; prae before + cedere to go, to be in motion: cf. F. pr['e]ceder. See Pre-, and Cede.]

  1. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything. ``Harm precedes not sin.''
    --Milton.

  2. To go before in place, rank, or importance.

  3. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object. [R.]

    It is usual to precede hostilities by a public declaration.
    --Kent.

Preceding

Preceding \Pre*ced"ing\, a.

  1. Going before; -- opposed to following.

  2. (Astron.) In the direction toward which stars appear to move. See Following, 2.

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Wiktionary
preceding

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

  2. (present participle of precede English)

WordNet
preceding

  1. adj. existing or coming before [syn: preceding(a)] [ant: succeeding(a)]

  2. preceding in time or order [syn: antecedent] [ant: subsequent]

  3. of a person who has held and relinquished a position or office; "a retiring member of the board" [syn: past(a), preceding(a), retiring(a)]

Usage examples of "preceding".

But after the dread feeling of worry and want was finally eradicated from his mind by the abolition of the individual accumulative system, he then began to apply himself carefully to physical development, and as running, jumping and acrobatic work have the best symmetrical effects upon the human form, this kind of exercise was extensively followed, and as each generation succeeded in outdoing the feats of the preceding one, the entire nation finally evolved into one of extraordinary springing propensities.

But as the account between the monarch and the subject was perpetually open, and as the renewal of the demand anticipated the perfect discharge of the preceding obligation, the weighty machine of the finances was moved by the same hands round the circle of its yearly revolution.

To understand the directions then taken in building, it will be helpful to review briefly the general course of architectural development during the preceding century.

Rue Richelieu, at the house of our colleague Grevy, who had been arrested in the Tenth Arrondissement on the preceding day, who was at Mazas.

Sir William Wyndham died the preceding year, deeply regretted as an orator, a patriot, and a man, the constant assertor of British liberty, and one of the chief ornaments of the English nation.

The winter was a much milder one than the preceding, food was less scarce, money more plentiful owing to the issue of assignats, public confidence greatly increased.

Such expressions of course could only have come from men who had succeeded in solving some of the problems of antisepsis that were solved once more in the generation preceding our own.

It is somewhat interesting to compare the platform to which the Democrats assented in 1872 with any they had ever before adopted, or with the record of their senators and representatives in Congress upon all the public questions at issue during the years immediately preceding the Convention.

By this means some notion might be formed of the general direction of the line of barometric pressure preceding or succeeding a storm.

Senart, formerly President of the Constituent Assembly, Bastide, Laissac, Landrin, had joined the Representatives on the preceding day.

Heron was walking on ahead of him, preceding him by some fifty metres or so, his long legs covering the distances more rapidly than de Batz could follow them.

Crovier understands this to signify that the Romans did not employ a greater force for besieging Antium, than they had employed the preceding year, and which at that time seemed insufficient for the purpose.

Villiers, Stuart, Litton, and Emerson Tennent, all urged the same serious charge against the Irish administration which had been made by preceding speakers, Mr.

The bags are also to be tried on mandrels, or formers, made according to the dimensions given on the preceding page.

Preceding the first appearance of the menses, girls usually feel an aching in the back, pains in the limbs, chilliness, and general languor.