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antidater

French, verb/ɑ̃.ti.da.te/

antidater is a French verb meaning “to backdate” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Marquer d’une date antérieure à la véritable”.

What does antidater mean in English?

verb

  1. 1

    to backdate

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

How French dictionaries define it

verb: 1. Marquer d’une date antérieure à la véritable.

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.

Forms of antidater

  • avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
  • antidatant gerund participle present
  • ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
  • antidaté participle past
  • antidate first-person indicative present
  • antidates indicative present second-person
  • antidatons first-person indicative plural
  • antidatez indicative plural present
  • antidatent indicative plural present
  • antidatais first-person imperfect indicative
  • antidatait imperfect indicative singular
  • antidations first-person imperfect indicative
  • antidatiez imperfect indicative plural
  • antidataient imperfect indicative plural
  • antidatai first-person historic indicative
  • antidatas historic indicative past
  • antidata historic indicative past
  • antidatâmes first-person historic indicative

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce antidater?

  • /ɑ̃.ti.da.te/
  • \ɑ̃.ti.da.te\

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

English words that translate to antidater

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

How common is antidater in French?

antidater appears about once in every 42 million words in written French.

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