[{"word":"pre-dated","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"To designate a date earlier than the actual one; to move a date, appointment, event, or period of time to an earlier point (contrast \"postdate\".)","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To exist or to occur before something else; to antedate.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"The Chinese use of Pascal's Triangle predates its discovery by Blaise Pascal."}],"synonyms":["antedate","backdate","foredate","antedate"],"antonyms":["overdate","postdate","postdate"]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pre-date","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pre-dated","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/predate"]}]