English Explanatory Dictionary

status quo ante

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The state of things as they were before; a preexisting state of affairs.

Word forms

status quo ante status quo antes

Etymology

From the Latin stātus quō ante (“the way things were before”), possibly from stātus quō ante bellum (“the way things were before the war”).

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