postdating

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noun

A later citation of a lexical item.

“The new edition of the dictionary contains several postdatings.”

Scrabble 14

Meanings

nounpostdating (plural postdatings)

plural postdatings

  1. human sciencesA later citation of a lexical item.

    The new edition of the dictionary contains several postdatings.

    1 more example

    Indeed, for 10 of these terms, the latest known record was their inclusion in Hobson-Jobson, and without any published postdatings this may have suggested that those terms were obsolescent at the end of the nineteenth century.

    2018, James Lambert, “Anglo-Indian slang in dictionaries on historical principles”, in World Englishes, volume 37, page 256
verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of postdate
Cite this entry
APA

postdating. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postdating

MLA

“postdating.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postdating. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postdating,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postdating.

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