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pre-prandial

pre-prandial is the alternative form of preprandial.

Meaning of preprandial

Adjective

preprandial

  1. Occurring before a meal, especially dinner.
    • Whilst meditating on the beauty and design as shown in the ant-eater, whose præprandial movements I was intently watching, a young gentleman (not a naturalist) asked me, sotto voce, "what is that contrivance?" "It is a contrivance," said I, "for catching ants, and that is why he is called the...1854, “The Ant-eater”, in Bentley's Miscellany, volume XXXV, London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, page 550

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Forms of pre-prandial

pluralpre-prandials

Questions about pre-prandial

What is pre-prandial the alternative form of?
Pre-prandial is the alternative form of preprandial.

Words near pre-prandial in the dictionary

  1. pre-positioning
  2. pre-positions
  3. Pre-Pottery Neolithic
  4. Pre-Pottery Neolithic A
  5. Pre-Pottery Neolithic B
  6. pre-prandial
  7. pre-prandials
  8. pre-preg
  9. pre-pregs
  10. pre-prepare
  11. pre-prepared

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