POSTDATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does postdate mean? 

• POSTDATE (verb)
  The verb POSTDATE has 2 senses:

1. be later in time

2. establish something as being later relative to something else

  Familiarity information: POSTDATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSTDATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they postdate    ... he / she / it postdates   
Past simple: postdated   
Past participle: postdated   
-ing form: postdating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be later in time

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

follow; postdate

Context example:

Tuesday always follows Monday

Verb group:

come after; follow (come after in time, as a result)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Antonym:

predate (be earlier in time; go back further)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Establish something as being later relative to something else

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "postdate" is one way to...):

chronologise; chronologize (establish the order in time of something)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

predate (establish something as being earlier relative to something else)