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pre-oral

pre-oral is the alternative spelling of preoral.

Meaning of preoral

Adjective

preoral (not comparable)

  1. Situated in front of, or anterior to, the mouth.
    • preoral aperture
  2. Prior to the oral stage, in Freudian psychoanalysis.
  3. Prior to an oral exam.

Forms of pre-oral

comparativemore pre-oral
superlativemost pre-oral

Origin of pre-oral

From pre- + oral.

Words that rhyme with pre-oral

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Questions about pre-oral

What is pre-oral the alternative spelling of?
Pre-oral is the alternative spelling of preoral.

Words near pre-oral in the dictionary

  1. pre-occupations
  2. pre-op
  3. pre-operative
  4. pre-operatively
  5. pre-ops
  6. pre-oral
  7. pre-order
  8. pre-ordered
  9. pre-ordering
  10. pre-orders
  11. pre-owned

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-oral (page history and authors); preoral (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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