Predate

Definition: Predate

Predate

Verb

1. Be earlier in time; go back further.

2. Come before; "Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify".

3. Establish something as being earlier relative to something else.

Synonyms: Predate

Synonyms: antecede (v), antedate (v), foredate (v), forego (v), precede (v). (additional references)

Antonym: postdate (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Predate

Specialty definitions using "predate": holy wars. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: Predate

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Romania	Romania's rich cultural traditions have been nourished by many sources, some of which predate the Roman occupation. (references)
Human Rights	Venezuela	As a result, military judges trying human rights cases that predate the Constitution can be subject to improper influence, and offenders might evade punishment for human rights abuses. (references)
	Venezuela	However, the provision does not apply to cases that predate the 1999 Constitution and there is no implementing law for the provision. (references)
Minorities	Iran	Such tensions predate the revolution. (references)
Worker Rights	Tajikistan	Neither the Law on Labor Protection nor the Law on Employment, both of which predate the existing Constitution, specifically prohibits forced or compulsory labor; the Constitution supercedes national laws. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Predate

"Predate" is generally used as a lexical verb (base form) -- approximately 60.61% of the time. "Predate" is used about 33 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
Lexical Verb (base form)	60.61%	20	78,262
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	39.39%	13	97,576
Total	100.00%	33	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Predate

Expression using "predate": to predate. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Predate

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
predate	10
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Predate

Language		Translations for "predate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		foruddatere (to antedate, to backdate, to predate). (various references)

Dutch		antidateren (antedate), antedateren (antedate). (various references)

Farsi		قبل ازموقع بخصوص واقع شدن . (various references)

French		précéder (precede), antidater (to predate). (various references)

German		vordatieren (antedate, foredate, to antedate, to date ahead). (various references)

Greek		προχρονολογώ (ante-date). (various references)

Hungarian		antedatál (to antedate). (various references)

Italian		antidatare (antedate). (various references)

Manx		roie-ghaital. (various references)

Pig Latin		edatepray

Portuguese		preceder (antedate, forego, precede). (various references)

Russian		предшествовать (antedate, be a preliminary to, come before, forego, foregone, forewent, precede, supercede, superceeds). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		staviti raniji datum (antedate). (various references)

Spanish		preceder (antedate, forego, go before, precede, procedure). (various references)

Swedish		fördatera (antedate). (various references)

Turkish		geçmiş tarihle yazmak, eski tarihle yazmak, erken tarih atmak, önce gelmek (antedate, forego, precede, take precedence of). (various references)

Ukrainian		датувати заднім числом (antedate). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Predate

Derivations
	Words beginning with "predate": predated, predates. (additional references)
	Words ending with "predate": depredate. (additional references)
	Words containing "predate": depredated, depredates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Predate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pedaet, pedite, Perdeeta, perduto, Piedade, pradate, preat, preaty, predape, predater, prederate, predose, prefat, Pregaday, premate, preterate, Prevatte, redate, Redgate, Redmate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Predate"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "predate" (pronounced prēdā"t or prē"dā't)
3	-d ā" t	date, postdate, sedate, update.
3	-d ā' t	accommodate, backdate, consolidate, dilapidate, elucidate, intimidate, inundate, invalidate, liquidate, mandate, mithridate, outdate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Predate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: adepter, retaped, tapered.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: depart, derate, pardee, parted, pedate, petard, prated, reaped, redate, repeat, retape, teared.
	-2 letters: adept, apter, arete, dater, derat, deter, drape, eared, eater, etape, padre, pared, pated, pater, peart, perea, peter, prate, preed, raped, rated, taped, taper, tared, trade, tread, treed.
	-3 letters: aped, aper, dare, dart, date, dear, deep, deer, deet, dere, drat, dree.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: carpeted, departed, departee, depurate, operated, paltered, parented, pargeted, pattered, pederast, preacted, predated, predates, pretaped, repasted, repeated, replated, tampered, threaped, trapesed.
	+2 letters: asperated, chaptered, dapperest, deepwater, departees, departure, deprecate, depredate, depurated, depurates, desperate, entrapped, parapeted, pargetted, parqueted, partnered, patterned, pederasts, pederasty, permeated, perorated, pertained, plastered, predicate, preheated, prepasted, pretasted, readapted, readopted, repainted, repatched, replanted, repudiate, restamped, separated, spattered, stampeder, trepanned.
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