Definition of Prerace

1. Adjective. (sports) Occurring before, or in preparation for, a race ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prerace

1. preceding a race [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prerace

prepupas
prepurchase
prepurchased
prepurchases
prepurchasing
preputial
prepyloric vein
prequalified
prequalifies
prequalify
prequalifying
prequantum
prequel
prequels
prequential
prerace (current term)
preradio
preraphaelism
preraphaelite
preraphaelites
preratification
prerational
preread
prereading
prereads
prerecession
prerecessionary
prerecord
prerecorded
prerecording

Literary usage of Prerace

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ohio Statesmen and Annals of Progress: From the Year 1788 to the Year 1900 by William Alexander Taylor, Aubrey Clarence Taylor (1899)
"prerace. \ -\.:^ \ni-H At the very appropriate suggestion of Senator Jeremiah L. Carpenter, of the Eighth District, the appended is made the preface to this ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1806)
"... under his iron yoke, not only * For these wise and moderate sentiments, Procopius .(de Bell. Goth. 1. ic 3.) is scourged in the prerace ..."

3. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"In the prerace to his " Monograph on the Development of Elasmobranchs," which, published in 1878, was at once recognised by all biologi-ti as a classical ..."

4. View of the State of Europe During the Middle Ages by Henry Hallam (1853)
"... in the prerace to the third volume of Ordonnances, p. 48., by l\I. Secousse, who had found it mentioned in the Bibliotheque Historique of I,c Long. No. ..."

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