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prepone

/ˌpriˈpoʊn/

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India/ˈpriːˌpoːn/

prepone verb: to reschedule to a time earlier than the current scheduled time.

Verb (1)

prepone (third-person singular simple present prepones, present participle preponing, simple past and past participle preponed)

  1. (India, transitive) To reschedule to a time earlier than the current scheduled time.
    Antonyms:
    postpone

Verb (2)

prepone (third-person singular simple present prepones, present participle preponing, simple past and past participle preponed)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To place or set (something) before.
    • I do pꝛepone and ſet the Loꝛd alwaye befoꝛe myne eyes: He is ſtyll at my right hande, leaſte I fall in anye wyſe.1549 September 30 (Gregorian calendar), Robert Crowley, transl., “The .xvi. Psalme”, in The Psalter of Dauid Newely Translated into Englysh Metre in Such Sort that It Maye the More Decently, and wyth...
    • When theſe Characters curt, and ſhort Essayes, / Right Worſhipfull, vnworthie of Your view, / At ſome ſucceſſiue Hours, on ydle dayes, / My Pen, for Pinſell; Coale, for Colours, drew, / I ſtood, and ſtudi’d, whoſe præponed Name / Should dye in Graine, and Luſter lend to Them.1625, Alexander Garden, “To the Truely Honored, and Worthily Worshipfull, Sir Alexander Gordon, Knight-Baronet of Clunie, &c.”, in Characters and Essayes, Aberdeen: […] Edward Raban, […], page 5
    Synonyms:
    prefix, prepose

prepone meaning in Tamil and Kannada

prepone in Tamil

முந்திவை

prepone in Kannada

ಮೊದಲಿಗೆ, ಮೊದಲೇ, ಮುಂಚೆ, ಮುಂಚಿತವಾಗಿ

Examples of prepone in a sentence

  • If then by this inviolable tie we are one, your endowments entitle me joinct owner; a riches, I prepone to Monarchies.1653 October 9 (Gregorian calendar), D. W., “XLIX. A further reply.”, in Thomas Blount, The Academie of Eloquence. Containing a Compleat...
  • Firſt, Find what Decimal of a Pound .625 will Repreſent, which is eaſily done if you prepone a Cypher [i.e., zero], and half the Number is the Decimal of a Pound.1716, John Hill, Arithmetick Both in the Theory and Practice, Made Plain and Easie, in All the Common and Useful Rules, Both in Whole...

Synonyms of prepone

Antonyms

Forms of prepone

third-person singular presentprepones
present participlepreponing
past participlepreponed
pastpreponed
alternative formpre-pone

Origin of prepone

Blend of pre- + postpone, 1913.

From Latin praepōnō.

Words formed from prepone

Words that rhyme with prepone

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Questions about prepone

What does prepone mean?
Prepone means to reschedule to a time earlier than the current scheduled time.
What is prepone in Tamil?
Prepone in Tamil is முந்திவை. See Prepone meaning in Tamil.
How do you use prepone in a sentence?
If then by this inviolable tie we are one, your endowments entitle me joinct owner; a riches, I prepone to Monarchies.
What part of speech is prepone?
Prepone is a verb.
How do you pronounce prepone?
Prepone is pronounced /ˈpriːˌpoːn/ (India).
What is the past tense of prepone?
The past tense of prepone is preponed.

Words near prepone in the dictionary

  1. preponderence
  2. prepondering
  3. preponderous
  4. preponderously
  5. preponders
  6. prepone
  7. preponed
  8. preponement
  9. prepones
  10. preponing
  11. prepontine

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Adapted from Wiktionary: prepone (page history and authors); prepone (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); prepone (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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