foredate

Questions about foredate

What does foredate mean?

foredate means "establish something as being earlier relative to something else".

How many syllables are in foredate?

foredate has 3 syllables and divides as fo-re-date under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for foredate?

Close synonyms include predate, antedate. 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 foredate a common word?

foredate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.