"anteriorly" meaning in English

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    {
      "word": "posteriorly"
    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "dorsoanteriorly"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "subanteriorly"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "superoanteriorly"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "word": "ventroanteriorly"
    }
  ],
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "anterior",
        "3": "-ly",
        "id2": "adverbial"
      },
      "expansion": "anterior + -ly",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From anterior + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more anteriorly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most anteriorly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "anteriorly (comparative more anteriorly, superlative most anteriorly)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "an‧te‧ri‧or‧ly"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
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        {
          "_dis": "71 7 23",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "before (in time)"
      ],
      "id": "en-anteriorly-en-adv-mpyz8mON",
      "links": [
        [
          "before",
          "before"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "in front (in position)"
      ],
      "id": "en-anteriorly-en-adv-sk6SOwrE",
      "links": [
        [
          "in front",
          "in front"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977, Murray John Copeland, Early Paleozoic Ostracoda from Southwestern District of Mackenzie and Yukon Territory, page 30:",
          "text": "Margin of dolon curling smoothly to distal margin of velum both anteriorly and posteriorly, but dolonal margins not in contact when valves closed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, N. Ikeya, K. Ishizaki, T. Hanai, Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, page 1045:",
          "text": "In both cases the histial dolon is united anteriorly with the velar dolon and both genera are also similar in being unisulcate .",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "towards the anterior"
      ],
      "id": "en-anteriorly-en-adv-s493MTP-",
      "links": [
        [
          "anterior",
          "anterior"
        ]
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 0 99",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "towards the anterior",
          "word": "anteriormente"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0",
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "anteriourly"
    }
  ],
  "word": "anteriorly"
}

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  "antonyms": [
    {
      "word": "posteriorly"
    }
  ],
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    "English adverbs",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms suffixed with -ly (adverbial)",
    "Entries with translation boxes",
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Terms with Portuguese translations"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "dorsoanteriorly"
    },
    {
      "word": "subanteriorly"
    },
    {
      "word": "superoanteriorly"
    },
    {
      "word": "ventroanteriorly"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "anterior",
        "3": "-ly",
        "id2": "adverbial"
      },
      "expansion": "anterior + -ly",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From anterior + -ly.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more anteriorly",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most anteriorly",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "anteriorly (comparative more anteriorly, superlative most anteriorly)",
      "name": "en-adv"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "an‧te‧ri‧or‧ly"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "before (in time)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "before",
          "before"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "in front (in position)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "in front",
          "in front"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1977, Murray John Copeland, Early Paleozoic Ostracoda from Southwestern District of Mackenzie and Yukon Territory, page 30:",
          "text": "Margin of dolon curling smoothly to distal margin of velum both anteriorly and posteriorly, but dolonal margins not in contact when valves closed.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, N. Ikeya, K. Ishizaki, T. Hanai, Evolutionary Biology of Ostracoda, page 1045:",
          "text": "In both cases the histial dolon is united anteriorly with the velar dolon and both genera are also similar in being unisulcate .",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "towards the anterior"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "anterior",
          "anterior"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "rare"
      ],
      "word": "anteriourly"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "towards the anterior",
      "word": "anteriormente"
    }
  ],
  "word": "anteriorly"
}