Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun precedence

3 senses of precedence

Sense 1
precedence, precedency, priority -- (status established in order of importance or urgency; "...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals"; "national independence takes priority over class struggle")
       => high status -- (a position of superior status)

Sense 2
priority, antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency -- (preceding in time)
       => earliness -- (quality of coming early or earlier in time)

Sense 3
precession, precedence, precedency -- (the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony))
       => activity -- (any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity")