ANTE means “before”–such as antebellum, referred to the era before the Civil War; anteroom–a room at the front of a house that leads to other rooms, or a waiting room (like in a clinic or hospital).PRE also means before, such as the “preface” of a book means the pages that come before chapter 1. Your brother is right.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/post-

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ante-

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what does post mean? as in post war post menopause post holocaust?
me and my bother have been fighting about this for hours i believe it is before but he seems to think it means after can someone please leave a answer and a link to proof 🙂

Pre means before.

Sorry to have to side with your brother, but he’s right. I’ll post a link if you really need one, but it would be in any dictionary.

Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) – Cite This Source

post-

a prefix, meaning “behind,” “after,” “later,” “subsequent to,” “posterior to,” occurring originally in loanwords from Latin (postscript), but now used freely in the formation of compound words (post-Elizabethan; postfix; postgraduate; postorbital).

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[Origin: < L, comb. form repr. post (adv. and prep.)] Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

postpaid

postgraduate

postmortem

post meridian

‘Pre’ means before.