above-mentioned

1. 1.

   mentioned or named earlier in the same text

   Synonymsabove-named

   Similarpreceding

Questions about above-mentioned

What does above-mentioned mean?

above-mentioned means "mentioned or named earlier in the same text".

How many syllables are in above-mentioned?

above-mentioned has 6 syllables: a-bo-ve--men-tio-ned. The stress falls on "men".

What is another word for above-mentioned?

Close synonyms include above-named. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is above-mentioned a common word?

above-mentioned is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.