| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: | fôr, f r |
| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Located at or toward the front; forward. 2. Earlier in order of occurrence; former. | | NOUN: | 1. Something that is located at or toward the front. 2. The front part. | | ADVERB: | 1. At, toward, or near the front; forward. 2. At an earlier time. | | PREPOSITION: | also 'fore Before. | | INTERJECTION: | Sports Used by a golfer to warn those ahead that a ball is headed in their direction. | | IDIOM: | to the fore In, into, or toward a position of prominence: A new virtuoso has come to the fore. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, beforehand, before, in front of, from Old English. See per1 in Appendix I.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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