Word.ws English Dictionary

precondom

precondom adjective: before the use of condoms became standard in response to the HIV epidemic of the 1980s.

Adjective

precondom (not comparable)

  1. Before the use of condoms became standard in response to the HIV epidemic of the 1980s.
    • The company also chimed in regarding the status of precondom films, offering their support: These films were produced at a time when sex without condoms was not a life threatening behavior.2015, Lynn Comella, Shira Tarrant Ph.D., New Views on Pornography: Sexuality, Politics, and the Law

Forms of precondom

alternative formpre-condom

Origin of precondom

From pre- + condom.

Questions about precondom

What does precondom mean?
Precondom means before the use of condoms became standard in response to the HIV epidemic of the 1980s.
What part of speech is precondom?
Precondom is an adjective.

Words near precondom in the dictionary

  1. preconditioner
  2. preconditioners
  3. preconditioning
  4. preconditionings
  5. preconditions
  6. precondom
  7. precondylar
  8. preconference
  9. preconfigurable
  10. preconfiguration
  11. preconfigure

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: precondom (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “precondom.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/precondom. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.