afore
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English afore, aforn, from Old English onforan or ætforan; equivalent to a- + fore.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
Adverb
afore (not comparable)
- (archaic, dialect) Before.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- Stephano: He's in his fit now ; and doe's not talke after the wiſeſt ; hee ſhall taſte of my Bottle : if hee haue neuer drunke wine afore, it will goe neere to remoue his Fit : […]
- 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
- A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.
- (nautical) In the fore part of a ship.
Preposition
afore
- Before; in advance of the time of.
- 1989, Edward Chisnall, Bell in the tree; The Glasgow story:
- "Oh aye!" his face lit up with a smile. "I mind that! Where was that?" "That was us when we all worked in the shop, afore the War." "Oh aye …?" he frowned. "Who …?" She took the photograph back from him and reached inside her apron pocket for her spectacles.
- 1989, Edward Chisnall, Bell in the tree; The Glasgow story:
- Before; situated geographically or metaphorically in front of.
Conjunction
afore
- In advance of the time when; before.
Derived terms
Anagrams
Middle English
Alternative forms
Adverb
afore
Preposition
afore
- before; afore: in advance of the time of
- c. 1370–1450 Laurence de Premierfait, Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, as quoted in Lydgate's Fall of Princes (1923, The Carnegie Institution of Washington):
- Affor tyme thei wer but bestiall,
- Till thei to resoun be lawes wer constreyned,
- Vndir discrecioun bi statutis naturall
- c. 1370–1450 Laurence de Premierfait, Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, as quoted in Lydgate's Fall of Princes (1923, The Carnegie Institution of Washington):
- before; afore: situated geographically or metaphorically in front of
- 1399, Rich. Redeless IV, 72
- and somme were so ffers
- at ffrist come,
- that they bente on a bonet,
- and bare a topte saile
- affor the wynde ffresshely,
- to make a good ffare
- 1399, Rich. Redeless IV, 72
Conjunction
afore
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English afore. More at English afore.
Pronunciation
Adverb
afore (not comparable)
- (of place) before, in front
- (of time) before, previously, in advance
Preposition
afore
- (of place) before, in front of
- (of time) before
Conjunction
afore
- (of place) before, rather than
References
- Eagle, Andy, ed. (2016) The Online Scots Dictionary, Scots Online.
Spanish
Verb
afore
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