By THE NEW YORK TIMES. Twenty-seventh President of the United States and its tenth Chief Justice, William Howard Taft was the only man in the history of the country to become the head of both the Executive and Judicial Departments of the Federal Government.
Adj. 1. preceding-existing or coming before. antecedent-preceding in time or order. succeeding-coming after or following. previous-Preceding means occurring immediately before the time of the utterance, while previous means occurring at some time before the utterance..
Definition of 'ahead of'. ahead of preposition uses. If someone is ahead of you, they are directly in front of you. If someone is moving ahead of you, they are in front of you and moving in the same direction. I saw a man in a blue jacket thirty metres ahead of me. She walked ahead of Helene up the steps into the hotel.