antebellum
- s belonging to a period before a war especially the American Civil War
antecedent
- n someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
- n a preceding occurrence or cause or event
- n anything that precedes something similar in time
phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience - n the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
- a preceding in time or order
antecubital
- a of or relating to the region of the arm in front of the elbow
blood was drawn from the antecubital region
antediluvial
- a of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
antediluvian
- n any of the early patriarchs who lived prior to the Noachian deluge
- n a very old person
- a of or relating to the period before the biblical flood
antediluvian man - s so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
a ramshackle antediluvian tenement
antediluvian ideas
antepenultimate
- n the 3rd syllable of a word counting back from the end
- s third from last