ANTECEDENT
- A thing or event that existed before or logically precedes another
- A person's ancestors or family and social background
- A word, phrase, clause, or sentence to which another word (esp. a following relative pronoun) refers
- The first term in a ratio
- foregoing [adj ANTECEDENTLY] / a clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun [n -S]
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