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{
"sense": "antonym(s) of \"in front of\"",
"word": "post-"
},
{
"sense": "antonym(s) of \"beforehand\"",
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"2": "𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰-"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English fore-, from Old English fore-, from Proto-West Germanic *forē-, from Proto-Germanic *fura-, *furai- (“before, in front of, for”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“before, formerly; through, throughout”).\nAkin to Old Saxon and Old High German fora-, Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰- (faura-) (see 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌰 (faura)), Dutch voor- (“fore-”).",
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"text": "foreshadow is to occur beforehand, forewarn is to warn beforehand, forechosen is chosen beforehand",
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"text": "forebirth is that which precedes birth, foreking is a preceding king, forehammer is a large sledge which strikes right before a smaller one",
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"Before with respect to order or rank: first, prior, superior, ahead.",
"Ancestor, ancestral"
],
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"Before",
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],
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"ipa": "/fɔː/",
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]
},
{
"ipa": "/fɔɹ/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/fo(ː)ɹ/",
"note": "rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger"
},
{
"ipa": "/foə/",
"note": "non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɔː(ɹ)"
},
{
"homophone": "four"
},
{
"homophone": "for (in accents with the horse–hoarse merger)"
},
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"sense": "in front of",
"word": "pre-"
},
{
"sense": "in front of",
"word": "ante-"
},
{
"sense": "beforehand",
"word": "pre-"
},
{
"sense": "beforehand",
"word": "ante-"
}
],
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}
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"Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
"Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
"Old English terms with IPA pronunciation"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
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{
"text": "forelay is to waylay",
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}
],
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"Used to indicate error, exclusion, or inadequacy; Alternative form of for-."
],
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]
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-22 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (fc4f0c7 and c937495). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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