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Meaning of "prepone" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD PREPONE

Pre- + (post)pone.
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Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.
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PRONUNCIATION OF PREPONE

prepone  [priːˈpəʊn] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PREPONE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Prepone is a verb.
The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb prepone in English.

WHAT DOES PREPONE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of prepone in the English dictionary

The definition of prepone in the dictionary is to bring forward to an earlier time.


CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO PREPONE

PRESENT

Present
I prepone
you prepone
he/she/it prepones
we prepone
you prepone
they prepone
Present continuous
I am preponing
you are preponing
he/she/it is preponing
we are preponing
you are preponing
they are preponing
Present perfect
I have preponed
you have preponed
he/she/it has preponed
we have preponed
you have preponed
they have preponed
Present perfect continuous
I have been preponing
you have been preponing
he/she/it has been preponing
we have been preponing
you have been preponing
they have been preponing
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past
I preponed
you preponed
he/she/it preponed
we preponed
you preponed
they preponed
Past continuous
I was preponing
you were preponing
he/she/it was preponing
we were preponing
you were preponing
they were preponing
Past perfect
I had preponed
you had preponed
he/she/it had preponed
we had preponed
you had preponed
they had preponed
Past perfect continuous
I had been preponing
you had been preponing
he/she/it had been preponing
we had been preponing
you had been preponing
they had been preponing
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future
I will prepone
you will prepone
he/she/it will prepone
we will prepone
you will prepone
they will prepone
Future continuous
I will be preponing
you will be preponing
he/she/it will be preponing
we will be preponing
you will be preponing
they will be preponing
Future perfect
I will have preponed
you will have preponed
he/she/it will have preponed
we will have preponed
you will have preponed
they will have preponed
Future perfect continuous
I will have been preponing
you will have been preponing
he/she/it will have been preponing
we will have been preponing
you will have been preponing
they will have been preponing
The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional
I would prepone
you would prepone
he/she/it would prepone
we would prepone
you would prepone
they would prepone
Conditional continuous
I would be preponing
you would be preponing
he/she/it would be preponing
we would be preponing
you would be preponing
they would be preponing
Conditional perfect
I would have prepone
you would have prepone
he/she/it would have prepone
we would have prepone
you would have prepone
they would have prepone
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been preponing
you would have been preponing
he/she/it would have been preponing
we would have been preponing
you would have been preponing
they would have been preponing
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative
you prepone
we let´s prepone
you prepone
The imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Infinitive
to prepone
Past participle
preponed
Present Participle
preponing
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PREPONE


alone
əˈləʊn
Capone
kəˈpəʊn
depone
dɪˈpəʊn
dispone
dɪsˈpəʊn
impone
ɪmˈpəʊn
interpone
ˌɪntəˈpəʊn
iPhone
ˈaɪˌfəʊn
known
nəʊn
lithopone
ˈlɪθəˌpəʊn
loan
ləʊn
Mon
məʊn
own
əʊn
phone
fəʊn
pone
pəʊn
postpone
pəʊstˈpəʊn
pwn
pəʊn
repone
rɪˈpəʊn
shown
ʃəʊn
smartphone
ˈsmɑːtˌfəʊn
stone
stəʊn

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PREPONE

prepollent
prepollex
preponderance
preponderancy
preponderant
preponderantly
preponderate
preponderately
preponderating
preponderation
preportion
prepose
preposition
prepositional
prepositional phrase
prepositionally
prepositive
prepositively
prepositor
prepossess

WORDS THAT END LIKE PREPONE

a good one
anyone
corn pone
done
everyone
gone
in one
leone
let alone
mascarpone
no one
no-one
none
one
propone
someone
the old one
the one
tone
zampone

Synonyms and antonyms of prepone in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «prepone» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PREPONE

Find out the translation of prepone to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of prepone from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «prepone» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

prepone
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

prepone
570 millions of speakers

English

prepone
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

prepone
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

prepone
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

prepone
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

prepone
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

prepone
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

prepone
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Prepone
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

prepone
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

prepone
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

prepone
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Prepone
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

prepone
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

prepone
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तयार करणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

prepone
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

prepone
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

prepone
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

prepone
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

prepone
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

prepone
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

prepone
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

prepone
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

prepone
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of prepone

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PREPONE»

The term «prepone» is regularly used and occupies the 93.484 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PREPONE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «prepone» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «prepone» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PREPONE»

Discover the use of prepone in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to prepone and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Negotiating Academic Literacies: Teaching and Learning ...
Take, for example, the two words depone and prepone. The first is a technical legal term and therefore highly respectable. The second prepone is not. It is an Indian English word of very general currency, coined to contrast with postpone.
Vivian Zamel, Ruth Spack, 2012
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World Englishes: A Resource Book for Students
Take, for example, the two words depone and prepone. The first is a technical legal term and therefore highly respectable. The second, prepone, is not. It is an Indian English word of very general currency, coined to contrast with 'to postpone' .
Jennifer Jenkins, 2003
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LTE Self-Organising Networks (SON): Network Management ...
... larger TTT/FC Too early (inter-freq) Postpone handover Smaller A5-Thresh1 and/or larger A5-Thresh2, larger TTT/FC Too late (intra-freq) Prepone handover Smaller A3 offset, shorter TTT/FC Too late (inter-freq) Prepone handover Larger ...
Seppo Hämäläinen, Henning Sanneck, Cinzia Sartori, 2012
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Enriching Esol Pedagogy: Readings and Activities for ...
Take, for example, the two words depone and prepone. The first is a technical legal term and therefore highly respectable. The second prepone is not. It is an Indian English word of very general currency, coined to contrast with postpone.
Vivian Zamel, Ruth Spack, 2002
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Advance your life: Practical advice you need to succeed
Heal. Thyself. of. Procrastination. Rather. prepone. than. postpone. Whatever is postponedwill mostprobably neverbe done. Postponing your tasks is postponing yourresults. Postponing your results is postponing your prosperity. We are all ...
Dr John Tibane, 2011
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Style in Journalism
Members of rival community attacked...' (The Hindu, 19th May, 1988). Certain other words are used in papers, although not literally correct: Sir, Since long, I have been under the delusion that “prepone” is a semiliterate antonym of “ postpone”.
P.V.L. Narasimha Rao, 2011
7
A Treatise on the Study of Antiquities as the Commentary to ...
Anglos] infernus appellatur, Hell, serva sonum hunc inte- grum et prepone st s- hell. Ita sona quod appellimus hall et prepone s. s-hall. Vides non sonari illud quod nos concham nostra vocamus lingusi, nee quod est futuri tem- poris lignum  ...
Thomas Pownall, 1782
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A History of Mathematical Notations
In extraccione radicis quadrati radicis quadrati prepone numero duo puncta. In extraccione cubici radicis alicuius numeri prepone tria puncta. In extraccione cubici radicis alicuius radicis cubici prepone 4 puncta.”a That is, one dot (~) placed ...
Florian Cajori, 2013
9
Annual Survey of Indian Law
Had retired judges, academicians, journalists of high stature etc been appointed as observers, in addition to civil servants, this evil may be reduced. Power to prepone counting The power of the Election Commission to prepone the counting  ...
‎2006
10
Illustrations, historical and critical, of the Life of ...
Et però chi prepone un vero amore, di necessità prepone gratia di perfettione, secondo la commune consuetudine de gli huomini, cosi neh" amato, come in chi ama ; et come adviene di tutte l'altre cose perfette, credo che questo tale amore ...
William Roscoe, 1822

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PREPONE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term prepone is used in the context of the following news items.
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Swaragini: OMG! Ragini To Take Swara's Place To Marry Lakshya …
Lakshya (Namish Taneja), who trusts Swara (Helly Shah) will prepone his marriage, after the big drama in the Sangeet ceremony. Like Swara ... «FilmiBeat, Jul 15»
2
Truck sales set to rise ahead of rule change
“There's no evidence in July of the pre-buying. But we do expect the fleet operators to prepone the purchase in the next few months,” said Ravi ... «Livemint, Jul 15»
3
Labor Day Could Be Critical For Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL)'s …
To cross the hurdle successfully, the company can prepone the launch of its latest iPhone to get the usual nine days period before the ... «Opptrends, Jul 15»
4
HC dismisses petition of Competent Automobiles
Subject to the above, the writ petition stands dismissed, with liberty to the petitioners to file an appropriate application to prepone the date fixed ... «Oherald, Jul 15»
5
Ahmedabad celebrates Eid, Rath Yatra today
"We have volunteered to prepone Eid prayers by 45 minutes for smooth arrangement of crowds and passing of Rath Yatra," said Imam Noor ... «Times of India, Jul 15»
6
Four months into session, govt school students to get uniforms from …
... the authorities in December 2014 decided to prepone the session and follow the pattern of CBSE-affiliated schools - beginning classes on ... «NYOOOZ, Jul 15»
7
Review Panorama: What you see is what you get
Another topic he wants to optimize is how to increase the number of international buyers: "For the next summer edition we consider to prepone ... «SPORTSWEAR INTERNATIONAL, Jul 15»
8
Get Ready for the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 in August
The Samsung-Apple rivalry is heating up once again with Samsung's decision to prepone its Galaxy Note 5 launch to August, just ahead of ... «TNerd.com, Jul 15»
9
BCCI likely to prepone Sri Lanka tour to give Team India rest
India will play Zimbabwe starting Friday which will be followed by the tour to Sri Lanka. (Source: AP). The BCCI is planning to advance India's ... «The Indian Express, Jul 15»
10
15 things you NEED to know about Shahid Kapoor's to-be-wife Mira …
Actually, Shahid and Mira were supposed to get married in December but the constant media attention made the families prepone the marriage ... «Bollywood Life, Jul 15»

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