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PRONUNCIATION OF ANTECESSOR

antecessor  [ˈæntɪˌsɛsə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANTECESSOR

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Antecessor is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ANTECESSOR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of antecessor in the English dictionary

The definition of antecessor in the dictionary is a predecessor, one who goes or has gone before.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANTECESSOR


aggressor
əˈɡrɛsə
assessor
əˈsɛsə
cesser
ˈsɛsə
compressor
kəmˈprɛsə
coprocessor
ˌkəʊˈprəʊsɛsə
dresser
ˈdrɛsə
hairdresser
ˈhɛəˌdrɛsə
intercessor
ˌɪntəˈsɛsə
lesser
ˈlɛsə
microprocessor
ˌmaɪkrəʊˈprəʊsɛsə
multiprocessor
ˌmʌltɪˈprəʊsɛsə
Odessa
əʊˈdɛsə
predecessor
ˈpriːdɪˌsɛsə
presser
ˈprɛsə
processor
ˈprəʊsɛsə
professor
prəˈfɛsə
successor
səkˈsɛsə
suppressor
səˈprɛsə
TESSA
ˈtɛsə
vanessa
vəˈnɛsə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANTECESSOR

ante meridiem
ante-mortem
ante-post
anteater
antebellum
antecede
antecedence
antecedent
antecedently
antecedents
antechamber
antechapel
antechoir
antedate
antediluvial
antediluvially
antediluvian
antefix
antefixa
antefixal

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANTECESSOR

assistant professor
associate professor
axial-flow compressor
college professor
confessor
Edward the Confessor
food processor
full professor
lessor
nutty professor
oppressor
possessor
preprocessor
regressor
repressor
scissor
stressor
tongue depressor
transgressor
visiting professor
word processor

Synonyms and antonyms of antecessor in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «antecessor» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANTECESSOR

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The translations of antecessor from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «antecessor» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

先行者
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

antecessor
570 millions of speakers

English

antecessor
510 millions of speakers

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antecessor
380 millions of speakers
ar

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antecessor
280 millions of speakers

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antecessor
278 millions of speakers

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antecessor
270 millions of speakers

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antecessor
260 millions of speakers

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antecessor
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Antecessor
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vorgängerin
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

前任者
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

antecessor
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Antecessor
85 millions of speakers
vi

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antecessor
80 millions of speakers

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antecessor
75 millions of speakers

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पूर्वीचा
75 millions of speakers

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antecessor
70 millions of speakers

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antecessor
65 millions of speakers

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antecessor
50 millions of speakers

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antecessor
40 millions of speakers

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antecessor
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

antecessor
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

antecessor
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

antecessor
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

antecessor
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of antecessor

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTECESSOR»

The term «antecessor» is regularly used and occupies the 76.938 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTECESSOR» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about antecessor

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTECESSOR»

Discover the use of antecessor in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to antecessor and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Last Human: A Guide to Twenty-two Species of Extinct Humans
Skull, Teeth, and Diet There are no complete skulls of Homo antecessor. What is known of the skull is known from fourteen skull fragments and two incomplete lower jaw bones (ATD 6-5 and ATD 6-96), belonging to a minimum of eight and a  ...
Gary J. Sawyer, Viktor Deak, 2007
2
Domesday Book and the Law: Society and Legal Custom in Early ...
commendation of two and a half of these men TRE, Stigand of one, and Hermer's antecessor of the remaining half. 2391 ii, 188a (9-193) Roger Bigot; Mangreen: TRW Roger Bigot has one and a half freemen in Mangreen with thirty-three acres  ...
Robin Fleming, 2003
3
Homo Antecessor
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Homo antecessor is an extinct human species (or subspecies) dating from 1.2 million to 800,000 years ago, that was discovered by Eudald Carbonell, Juan Luis Arsuaga and J. M. Bermudez de Castro.
Jesse Russell, Ronald Cohn, 2012
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World History Encyclopedia
Another controversy is over the place of H. antecessor in the hominin evolutionary sequence. The species was originally proposed as an intermediary between H. ergaster (which is either a separate African species or an African variant of H.
Alfred J. Andrea Ph.D., 2011
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Domesday Names: An Index of Latin Personal and Place Names ...
... nf01061/1i7a Rabelli artificis, nf55/269b Rabellus carpentarius, nf66101-02/ 279b Rachenild, bk4605/62d Rada,nf01128/125a Rada antecessor drogonis, sf4801/432a Radbellus artifex, nf55/109a Radboda prepositus radulfi de bellofago, ...
K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, David E. Thornton, 1997
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Multi-Hierarchical Representation of Large-Scale Space: ...
antecessor Ll, then they induce the same clustering on any common antecessor, that is, they are h-isomorphic. Proof: Suppose there is a common antecessor ofZ. 2 and Z,3, let it say Lx , on which they induce different clusterings. Since L2 and ...
Juan A. Fernández, Javier Gonz??lez, 2001
7
Conquered England: Kingship, Succession, and Tenure 1066-1166
There was no necessary one-to-one correspondence between antecessor and successor—no wholesale grant of all the lands and rights of a T.R.E. tenant, and nothing more—of the sort that the Canon Law origin of the term might be thought  ...
George Garnett, 2007
8
The Norman Conquest: A Very Short Introduction
Thus, for instance, what an antecessor was deemed to have held in some instances excluded, and in others included, what was said to have been held by men commended to the antecessor as their lord. In other words, the blanket term ' held' ...
George Garnett, 2009
9
The Emergence of Humans: An Exploration of the Evolutionary ...
The dates of later African Homo erectus are consistent with a speciation event about 1.0 mya–0.800 kya that produced Homo antecessor from Homo erectus. Some features of fossil anatomy identified in Homo antecessor, make the species  ...
Patricia J. Ash, David J. Robinson, 2010
10
Continuity and Discontinuity in the Peopling of Europe: One ...
(1997) hypothesized that H. antecessor could represent the last common ancestor to Neanderthals and modern humans. In order to test the hypothesis of a possible phylogenetic relationship between H. antecessor and the Neanderthals, we ...
Silvana Condemi, Gerd-Christian Weniger, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTECESSOR»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term antecessor is used in the context of the following news items.
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Rui Vitória promete treinos à porta aberta
04-07-2015 16:30. Deixa-te disso, Rui. O teu antecessor, nem aos restantes treinadores do clube, autorizava que assistissem aos treinos. «A Bola, Jul 15»
2
"Very rare" examples of "huge wealth": Chatteris Museum's Bronze …
... the stone age dating back to 780,000 BC – some of the earliest ever found in Britain and made by hominins such as Homo Antecessor and Neanderthal man. «Culture24, Jun 15»
3
Spain discovers oldest known homicide in the world
The victim was a young hominid, 'Homo Antecessor', killed with a blunt instrument, maybe a sharp stone or a clava of some sort, whose body ... «ANSAmed, May 15»
4
Paleo diet's other red meat: people
The species involved was Homo antecessor and evidence shows that in one fossil deposit alone dozens of fossils sport cut marks, percussion ... «Sydney Morning Herald, May 15»
5
Cannibalism: A History of People Who Eat People
Homo antecessor, the last common ancestor between Neanderthals and modern humans, relied on cannibalism regularly, even when other ... «Discovery News, May 15»
6
The 'other' red meat on the 'real' palaeodiet
The species involved was Homo antecessor and evidence shows that in one fossil deposit alone dozens of fossils sport cut marks, percussion ... «Medical Xpress, May 15»
7
New Taproom in the Works for Santa Clara Valley Brewing
The antecessor to the facility's inaugural brew pours through an elaborate network of pipes and tanks. It's alternately cooked, mixed, hopped ... «SanJose.com, May 15»
8
Archaeologists report on early human tools in Spanish cave
The mandible (now classified to an early human species known as Homo antecessor) was found within the context of an assemblage of "Mode ... «Popular Archaeology, Apr 15»
9
East Anglia's Deep History Coast could be a new dawn for tourism
... discovered smaller flint tools proving that an earlier form of human – Homo antecessor – had been in the area more than 850,000 years ago. «Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, Mar 15»
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Britain's deeper human history
These were made by Homo antecessor, a human species senior to Heidelberg Man. And, as with so much on the Norfolk coastline, the sea ... «Geographical, Feb 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Antecessor [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/antecessor>. May 2024 ».
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