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Postdate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To put a date on (a check, for example) that is later than the actual date.

v. To occur later than; follow in time.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To occur after an event or time; to exist later on in time

v. To assign an effective date to a document or action later than the actual date

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. To date after the real time.

v. To affix a date to after the event.

adj. Made or done after the date assigned.

n. A date put to a bill of exchange or other paper, later than that when it was actually made.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. A date put on a document later than the actual date on which it was written.

To affix a later date to than the real one: as, to postdate a contract (that is, to date it as if, for instance, it were made six months later than the actual date).

To date afterward; give a previous date to.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. be later in time

v. establish something as being later relative to something else

Word Usage

"All written texts in Náhuatl naturally postdate the Spanish Conquest after which the Franciscans taught the Indians the art of writing their own language in alphabetical form."

Antonym

antedate

Verb Form

postdated postdates postdating

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

chronologise chronologize

Form

postdated postdating

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

mistime

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Ate Cate Est Fate Haight