Get to know Postdate better with 4 real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like predate or follow.
Postdate meaning
- To occur after an event or time; to exist later on in time.
- To assign an effective date to a document or action later than the actual date.
- To affix a date to after the event.
Using Postdate
- The main meaning on this page is: To occur after an event or time; to exist later on in time. | To assign an effective date to a document or action later than the actual date. | To affix a date to after the event.
- Useful related words include: predate, follow, chronologize, chronologise.
Context around Postdate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 29.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Postdate
- In this selection, "postdate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 29.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, hyginus, papers and homer stand out and add context to how "postdate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and hyginus postdate homer by and approximation would postdate him too. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "postdate" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with postdate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Trumpism in Republicanism and — to a first approximation — would postdate him too, wouldn’t it? (16 words)
Before the Trojan War sidebar The majority of sources for Odysseus' pre-war exploits—principally the mythographers Pseudo-Apollodorus and Hyginus —postdate Homer by many centuries. (26 words)
Since many of the Biblical law codes themselves are thought to postdate the Book(s) of Samuel (according to the documentary hypothesis ), Chronicles is probably making its claim based on religious bias. (32 words)
The more direct associations between Bentham and UCL the College's custody of his Auto-icon (see above) and of the majority of his surviving papers postdate his death by some years: the papers were donated in 1849, and the Auto-icon in 1850. (44 words)
Since many of the Biblical law codes themselves are thought to postdate the Book(s) of Samuel (according to the documentary hypothesis ), Chronicles is probably making its claim based on religious bias. (32 words)
Before the Trojan War sidebar The majority of sources for Odysseus' pre-war exploits—principally the mythographers Pseudo-Apollodorus and Hyginus —postdate Homer by many centuries. (26 words)
The Trumpism in Republicanism and — to a first approximation — would postdate him too, wouldn’t it? (16 words)
Example sentences (4)
The Trumpism in Republicanism and — to a first approximation — would postdate him too, wouldn’t it?
Before the Trojan War sidebar The majority of sources for Odysseus' pre-war exploits—principally the mythographers Pseudo-Apollodorus and Hyginus —postdate Homer by many centuries.
Since many of the Biblical law codes themselves are thought to postdate the Book(s) of Samuel (according to the documentary hypothesis ), Chronicles is probably making its claim based on religious bias.
The more direct associations between Bentham and UCL the College's custody of his Auto-icon (see above) and of the majority of his surviving papers postdate his death by some years: the papers were donated in 1849, and the Auto-icon in 1850.