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antérieurement

French, adverb/ɑ̃.te.ʁjœʁ.mɑ̃/

antérieurement is spelled A-N-T-É-R-I-E-U-R-E-M-E-N-T (14 letters) and appears 1.8 times per million words in written French, the 22,196th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Antérieurement is a French adverb meaning “before, previously” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “À une époque antérieure”.

What does antérieurement mean in English?

adverb

  1. 1

    before, previously

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

adverb: 1. À une époque antérieure.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

How do you pronounce antérieurement?

  • /ɑ̃.te.ʁjœʁ.mɑ̃/
  • \ɑ̃.te.ʁjœʁ.mɑ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

English words that translate to antérieurement

Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.

How common is antérieurement in French?

antérieurement appears 1.8 times per million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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