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pre-dental

pre-dental is the alternative form of predental.

Meaning of predental

Adjective

predental (not comparable)

  1. Before, and in preparation for, dental education.
    • Biology and chemistry are good subjects for premedical or predental coursework.
  2. In front of the teeth.
  3. an erroneous misconstruction arising from erroneous parsing of compounds such as pre–dental surgery anxiety as *predental surgery anxiety, originating from various kinds of error: copyeditorial errors, optical character recognition errors, and transcoding loss of hard hyphens misinterpreted as soft hyphens.

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Questions about pre-dental

What is pre-dental the alternative form of?
Pre-dental is the alternative form of predental.

Words near pre-dental in the dictionary

  1. pre-decrement
  2. pre-decremented
  3. pre-decrementing
  4. pre-decrements
  5. pre-defined
  6. pre-dental
  7. pre-depression
  8. pre-determine
  9. pre-determined
  10. pre-determines
  11. pre-determining

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-dental (page history and authors); predental (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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