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Meaning of Antedating | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The action of marking with an earlier date.
  2. An earlier citation of a lexical item.

Equivalents

العربية السّبق
Português antedatação pré-datação

Examples

“The new edition of the dictionary contains several antedatings.”
“Had I access to large databases of scanned-in newspapers from the Philippines, or Africa, or India, etc., we would expect to see a good percentage of antedatings of the current earliest instances.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

antedation antedependence Antediluvian antediluvianism antedonid antedrug

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