English Root Words

Prefix-Ante
Ante
This ROOT-WORD is the Prefix ANTE which means BEFORE. Many of the words in
this list are pure Latin phrases, but they have become a part of our language and
we consider them English. Do not confuse ANTE with ANTI which means against.
ANTE means before.
WORD
Antebellum
Antebrachium
Anteroom

Antediluvian

Ante flexed
Ante past
Antelucan

Ante nuptial
Anterior
Antennae

Antepenult

Antelude

Ante script

Ante meridian
Ante mortem

MEANING
Existing before the
war
The forearm
To precede in time;
to date something
earlier than its
creation
Belonging to the
time before the
flood
Bent forward; as, a
displaced organ
A foretaste; as, an
appetizer
Before dawn; as,
meetings of the
early Christians
Coming before
marriage
Preceding in time
or place
The feelers on the
head of an insect;
used as organs of
touch
The third syllable
before the end of
the word
A play before the
main play; a
curtain-raiser
A note added
before something
as prefix to a letter
Coming before
noon
Coming before

SENTENCE
There was a great school, antebellum.

death
Ante vocalic
Ante type
Ante Nicene

Ante-steppe

Ante-choir

Antechamber

Antecede
Anteater

Antecessors
Antechapel

A letter before a
vowel; as, k in kind
An earlier type of
something
period before
Christianity

Ante means before

and steppe means
large area , So
Before large area
The ante-choir is
also called the
"fore choir."
A chamber or
apartment before
the chief
apartment
To go before in
time or place
A mammal that
feeds on ants and
termites, with a
long snout and
sticky tongue.
One that goes
before
A distinct part of a
chapel between
the entrance and
the nave or choir.

Some method of subdivision is necessary,

and the simplest and most obvious is that
which breaks the whole into two great
parts, the ante-Nicene and the postNicene
Limit of the ante-steppe is represented
by a line drawn from the Pruth through
Zhitomir, Kursk, Tambov and Stavropol-onVolga to the sources of the Ural river.
The antechoir of church is beautiful.

This is antechamber to white house.

I was antecede to sheelas birthday party.

There is a Anteater ,it is eating ants.

Bogies always antecessors Rail engine.

This monument was at the antechapel of
Taj mahal.