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# unprecedented

adjective (unprecedented; formal)

«unprecedented» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Never happened or done before; the first of its kind. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unprecedented/#m1)
2. Much greater than ever before: unprecedented numbers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unprecedented/#m2)

### In the lessons

Common in news and the formal exam voice: «unprecedented rainfall», «an unprecedented number of visitors». In maths and science, an unprecedented value is higher (or lower) than every earlier record.

### Examples

- The town had unprecedented flooding this spring. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unprecedented/#x1)
- The school saw an unprecedented number of entries for the art show. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unprecedented/#x2)
- The team's ten wins in a row were unprecedented. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unprecedented/#x3)
- Scientists recorded unprecedented heat in the city. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unprecedented/#x4)
- It was an unprecedented step for a child to speak at the meeting. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unprecedented/#x5)
- The book sold in unprecedented numbers. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unprecedented/#x6)

### Note

Say un-PRESS-i-den-tid. Takes «an». A precedent is an earlier example; unprecedented = with no earlier example. News sometimes overuses it for things that are only rare.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «unprecedented» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unprecedented/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«unprecedented» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/unprecedented.html) on Mova free.