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say it: an-TIR-ee-ur
anterior is an adjective and noun meaning "of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body". It carries 3 recorded senses.
of or near the head end or toward the front plane of a body
earlier in time
a tooth situated at the front of the mouth
“his malocclusion was caused by malposed anteriors”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for anterior come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.