Postdating
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Postdating is a noun meaning (lexicography) A later citation of a lexical item.
Meaning
(lexicography) A later citation of a lexical item.
More Meanings
- present participle and gerund of postdate
Example Sentences
The new edition of the dictionary contains several postdatings.
Indeed, for 10 of these terms, the latest known record was their inclusion in Hobson-Jobson, and without any published postdatings this may have suggested that those terms were obsolescent at the end of the nineteenth century.
Word Forms
- postdatings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include follow, antedating, post-date, postscriptum, postpostscript, pre-date.
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