beforementioned

Cited earlier above

Beforementioned means mentioned earlier in the same text or conversation, synonymous with aforementioned but rarer and more formal.

It appears almost exclusively in legal or bureaucratic documents: the beforementioned property, the beforementioned parties.

In contemporary writing, previously mentioned or simply mentioned earlier sounds more natural.

reference

foregoing

Previously mentioned or stated

earlier · above · antecedent · forenamed · aforesaid · said · noted · cited · referenced · indicated

Opposites
temporal reference in discourse

beforementionedfollowing

Coming after another

forthcoming · subsequent · later · hereafter · prospective

Family

before, mentioned, fore, mention, mentions, mentioning, mentionable, unmentioned, unmentionable

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