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fore
1[ fawr ]
adjective
- situated at or toward the front, as compared with something else.
- previous; earlier:
cities that existed in a fore time.
- Nautical.
- of or relating to a foremast.
- noting a sail, yard, boom, etc., or any rigging belonging to a fore lower mast or to some upper mast of a foremast.
- noting any stay running aft and upward to the head of a fore lower mast or to some specified upper mast of a foremast:
fore topmast stay.
- situated at or toward the bow of a vessel; forward.
adverb
- Nautical. at or toward the bow.
- Obsolete. before.
noun
- the forepart of anything; front.
- the fore, Nautical. the foremast.
preposition
- Also 'fore. Informal. before.
fore
2[ fawr, fohr ]
interjection
- (used as a cry of warning to persons on a course who are in danger of being struck by the ball.)
fore-
3- a prefix meaning 鈥渂efore鈥 (in space, time, condition, etc.), 鈥渇ront,鈥 鈥渟uperior,鈥 etc.:
forehead; forecastle; forecast; foretell; foreman.
fore-
1prefix
- before in time or rank
foresight
forefather
foreman
- at or near the front; before in place
forehead
forecourt
fore
2/ 蹿蓴藧 /
adjective
- usually in combination located at, in, or towards the front
the forelegs of a horse
noun
- the front part
- something located at, in, or towards the front
- short for foremast
- fore and aftlocated at or directed towards both ends of a vessel
a fore-and-aft rig
- to the fore
- to or into the front or conspicuous position
- alive or active
is your grandfather still to the fore?
adverb
- at or towards a ship's bow
- obsolete.before
preposition
- a less common word for before
fore
3/ 蹿蓴藧 /
interjection
- (in golf) a warning shout made by a player about to make a shot
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of fore1
Origin of fore3
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of fore1
Origin of fore2
Origin of fore3
Idioms and Phrases
- fore and aft, Nautical. in, at, or to both ends of a ship.
- to the fore,
- into a conspicuous place or position; to or at the front.
- still alive.
More idioms and phrases containing fore
- to the fore
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亚洲网紅露点s That Use fore-
What does聽fore- mean?
Fore鈥 is a prefix meaning 鈥渂efore,鈥 鈥渇ront,鈥 or 鈥渟uperior.鈥 It is occasionally used in everyday and technical terms. In some terms, such as fore-check, the prefix is separated from the second element with a hyphen.
Fore鈥 comes from Old English for(e), meaning 鈥渂efore鈥 or 鈥渇ront.鈥 The Latin cognate and translation is prae 鈥渂efore,鈥 which is the source of pre鈥, as in prefix and preposition. Learn more at our entry for each word.
Examples of聽fore-
One example of a word that you may have encountered that features the prefix fore鈥 is forebode, 鈥渢o foretell or predict; be an omen of; portend.鈥
The prefix fore鈥 means 鈥渂efore.鈥 The 鈥bode part of the word is a verb meaning 鈥渢o be an omen of鈥 or 鈥減ortend,鈥 from Old English bodian. Forebode literally means 鈥渢o portend before (something).鈥
What are some words that use the prefix fore-?
What are some other forms that fore鈥 may be commonly confused with?
Not every word that begins with the exact letters fore-, such as forensic or foreign, is necessarily using the prefix fore鈥 to denote 鈥渂efore.鈥 Learn why forensic means 鈥渞hetorical鈥 at our entry for the word.
Break it down!
Given the meaning of the prefix fore-, what is foreknowledge?
Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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