"ahead of one's time" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

Audio: en-au-ahead of one's time.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=ahead of one's time}} ahead of one's time
  1. (idiomatic) In advance of concurrent commonly accepted ideas; showing characteristics of changes yet to be. Tags: idiomatic Translations (in advance of commonly accepted ideas): سَابِق عَصْرِه (sābiq ʕaṣrih) [masculine] (Arabic), 先見之明 (Chinese Mandarin), 先见之明 (xiānjiànzhīmíng) (Chinese Mandarin), forud for sin tid (Danish), zijn tijd vooruit (Dutch), zijn tijd ver vooruit (Dutch), aikaansa edellä (Finnish), en avance sur son temps (French), הִקְדִּים אֶת זְמַנּוֹ (hiqdím et zmanó) (Hebrew), forut for sin tid (Norwegian Bokmål), forut for si tid (Norwegian Nynorsk), wyprzedzać swoje czasy [imperfective] (Polish), à frente de seu tempo (Portuguese), adelantado a su época (Spanish), före sin tid (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-ahead_of_one's_time-en-prep_phrase-g41CSLJZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations

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          "sense": "in advance of commonly accepted ideas",
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          "sense": "in advance of commonly accepted ideas",
          "word": "adelantado a su época"
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          "sense": "in advance of commonly accepted ideas",
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      "sense": "in advance of commonly accepted ideas",
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      "sense": "in advance of commonly accepted ideas",
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      "sense": "in advance of commonly accepted ideas",
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      "sense": "in advance of commonly accepted ideas",
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      "sense": "in advance of commonly accepted ideas",
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      "sense": "in advance of commonly accepted ideas",
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      "sense": "in advance of commonly accepted ideas",
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      "sense": "in advance of commonly accepted ideas",
      "word": "הִקְדִּים אֶת זְמַנּוֹ"
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      "sense": "in advance of commonly accepted ideas",
      "word": "forut for sin tid"
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      "sense": "in advance of commonly accepted ideas",
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      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "in advance of commonly accepted ideas",
      "tags": [
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      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "in advance of commonly accepted ideas",
      "word": "à frente de seu tempo"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "in advance of commonly accepted ideas",
      "word": "adelantado a su época"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "in advance of commonly accepted ideas",
      "word": "före sin tid"
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