Definitions of precede

1. To go before in time, place, rank, or importance.

2. To go before in time, rank, or importance.

3. To go, happen, or exist before.

4. come before; " Most English adjectives precede the noun they modify"

5. be earlier in time; go back further; " Stone tools precede bronze tools"

6. To go before in order of time; to occur first with relation to anything.

7. To go before in place, rank, or importance.

8. To cause to be preceded; to preface; to introduce; -- used with by or with before the instrumental object.

9. To go before some one else.

10. To happen first; be prior in existence.

11. To go before in the order of time; to go before in place, rank, or importance.