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Definition: Aforementioned |
AforementionedAdjective1. Being the one previously mentioned or spoken of; "works of all the aforementioned authors"; "said party has denied the charges". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aforementioned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonyms: AforementionedSynonyms: aforementioned(a) (adj), aforesaid(a) (adj), said(a) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Precedence | Adjective: preceding; Verb: precedent, antecedent; anterior; prior; before; former; foregoing; beforementioned, abovementioned, aforementioned; aforesaid, said; precursory, precursive; prevenient, preliminary, prefatory, introductory; prelusive, prelusory; proemial, preparatory. |
Priority | Adjective: prior, previous; preceding, precedent; anterior, antecedent; pre-existing, pre-existent; former, foregoing; aforementioned, before-mentioned, abovementioned; aforesaid, said; introductory; (precursory). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Aforementioned |
| English words defined with "aforementioned": aforesaid ♦ Forementioned ♦ said. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "aforementioned": exploitation of knowledge of confidential information ♦ insider dealing. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | If the aforementioned measures fail, other treatments should be tried. (references) | |
It must be noted that currently available tests do not attain the aforementioned high level of sensitivity. (references) | ||
Business | Current ceiling prices have been determined according to the procedures aforementioned. (references) | |
If properly implemented as stipulated in the aforementioned Action Plan, dissemination of PIPP will increase business opportunities for U.S. firms competing for work in Japan. (references) | ||
However, if profits earned from activities in the Kingdom are higher than profits computed by the aforementioned worldwide formula, then taxes will be assessed on the local profits. (references) | ||
Economic History | Yemen | Mortgage lending in Yemen is rare because of the aforementioned unwillingness of the court system to uphold the payment of interest. (references) |
Korea | Sometimes, the U.S. company discovers from the aforementioned publications that an unauthorized party has already filed the trademark and is awaiting registration. (references) | |
Uzbekistan | The aforementioned illustrates market opportunities for U. S. companies that specialize in consulting, engineering, construction, equipment supply and management in the oil and gas industry sector. (references) | |
Political Economy | Morocco | The latter, pertaining to a tightly disciplined organization with considerably more adherents than the aforementioned political party, remain outside the realm of political legitimacy, and their activities remain closely circumscribed by the authorities. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Aforementioned" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aforementioned" is used about 121 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 121 | 29,211 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aforementioned | 12 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "aforementioned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i lartpërmendur (above, above mentioned, aforecited, aforenamed, aforesaid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مذكور آنفا (above mentioned, aforesaid, mentioned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | гореспоменат (above mentioned, foregoing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 上述 (Above-mentioned, Aforesaid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | shora (above, from above, overhand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | voornoemd (aforesaid), voormeld (aforesaid), voorgenoemd (aforesaid), voorgemeld (aforesaid), eerdergenoemd (aforesaid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | susnommé (aforesaid), susmentionné (aforesaid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | obengenannt (abovementioned, above-named), obenerwähnt (above mentioned, aforesaid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | προειρημένος, προαναφερθείς. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fent említett (above, above mentioned, above-mentioned, afore-cited, afore-mentioned, aforesaid, said). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | summenzionato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 前件 (antecedent, previous case). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぜ"け" (able-bodied, antecedent, Cancer Research Institute, eyelid, full authority, plenipotentiary powers, previous case, robust health, wise men of the past). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 하" (Aforesaid). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | roie-raait (foregoing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aforementioneday acima mencionado (above mentioned, above-mentioned, foregone, forementioned), supramencionado (above mentioned, abovementioned, aforecited, aforenamed, before-mentioned), supracitado (above mentioned, aforecited, aforenamed, aforesaid, before-mentioned, foremost). (various references) вышеупомянутый (a/n above-named, above mentioned, abovementioned, above-mentioned, aforecited, aforesaid, foregoing, said). (various references) ranije spomenuti. (various references) antedicho (above, aforecited, aforesaid), ya mencionado (above), susodicho (above, above mentioned, aforenamed, aforesaid), cual (such as, which, who), consabido (familiar, well known), citado. (various references) förutnämnd (aforecited, aforenamed, aforesaid, said). (various references) adı geçen (aforenamed, aforesaid, mentioned, present, said), yukarıda geçen (aforenamed, aforesaid, supra), daha önce belirtilen (aforesaid). (various references) вищесказаний (aforesaid), вищезгаданий (above mentioned, aforesaid, foregoing, forementioned, foresaid, said, same). (various references) đã nói trên, đã kể trước đây (aforenamed), đã kể ở trên (aforenamed, before-mentioned). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Aforementioned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aformentioned. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "aforementioned" (pronounced ufô"rme'nshund) |
| 5 | -n sh u n d | mentioned. |
| 4 | -sh u n d | apportioned, auctioned, auditioned, captioned, cautioned, commissioned, conditioned, cushioned, decommissioned, fashioned, functioned, impassioned, malfunctioned, motioned, optioned, partitioned, petitioned, positioned, proportioned, propositioned, rationed, reconditioned, repositioned, requisitioned, sanctioned, sectioned, stationed, unsanctioned, vacationed. |
| 3 | -u n d | abandoned, aland, almond, awakened, bargained, beckoned, blackened, bludgeoned, brightened, broadened, burdened, burgeoned, buttoned, championed, chastened, cheapened, chickened, christened, cordoned, cottoned, dampened, darkened, deepened, destined, determined, diamond, dimensioned, disciplined, disheartened, disillusioned, dockland, Eland, emblazoned, emboldened, engined, enlightened, enlivened, envisioned, errand, evened, examined, fastened, fattened, flattened, frightened, gardened, Garland, garrisoned, glistened, happened, hardened, hastened, heartened, heightened, Highland, Holland, husband, illumined, imagined, imprisoned, island, jettisoned, leavened, legend, lengthened, lessened, ligand, lightened, likened, listened, livened, loosened, margined, millisecond, moistened, moribund, nanosecond, Norland, occasioned, opened, orphaned, Osmund, overburdened, pardoned, poisoned, predestined, predetermined, prisoned, questioned, quickened, reasoned, reawakened, rechristened, reckoned, reexamined, reopened, Reverend, ripened, ruined, saddened, seasoned, second, sharpened, Shetland, shortened, sickened, siphoned, slackened, softened, soland, steepened, stiffened, stipend, straightened, strengthened, summoned, sweetened, thickened, thousand, threatened, tightened, toughened, unburdened, unbuttoned, undetermined, unenlightened, unmentioned, unopened, unquestioned, upland, weakened, widened, wizened, worsened. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-e-f-i-m-n-n-o-o-r-t" | |
-2 letters: midafternoon. | |
-3 letters: deformation, denominator, renominated. | |
-4 letters: antimodern, definement, denominate, emendation, enantiomer, endearment, endometria, federation, moderation, ordainment, ornamented, reanointed, refinement, renominate. | |
-5 letters: adornment, afternoon, deferment, dentiform, determine, dominator, entrained, fermented, forenamed, formation, informant, internode, menadione, mentioned, mentioner, meteoroid, monitored, nanometer, nemertean, nemertine, netminder, nominated, nominator, remediate. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 66 6F 72 65 6D 65 6E 74 69 6F 6E 65 64 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- ..-. --- .-. . -- . -. - .. --- -. . -.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100110 01101111 01110010 01100101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101001 01101111 01101110 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A f o r e m e n t i o n e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0066 006F 0072 0065 006D 0065 006E 0074 0069 006F 006E 0065 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3572818471797180867581807170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Expressions: Internet 7. Translations: Modern 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Orthography 12. Bibliography |
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