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General dictionaries General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. ahead: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. ahead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. ahead: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. ahead: Cambridge International Dictionary of English [home, info]
  5. Ahead: Wiktionary [home, info]
  6. ahead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  7. ahead: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  8. ahead: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  9. AHEAD: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  10. ahead: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  11. ahead: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  12. ahead: Cambridge Dictionary of American English [home, info]
  13. ahead: Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms [home, info]
  14. Ahead: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  15. ahead: Cambridge International Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs [home, info]
  16. Ahead: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  17. ahead: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  18. ahead: Rhymezone [home, info]
  19. ahead: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  20. ahead: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  21. AHEAD: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848) [home, info]
  22. AHEAD: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms [home, info]
  23. Ahead: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
  24. ahead: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  25. ahead: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  26. ahead: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  27. ahead: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  28. ahead: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]
  29. ahead: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ahead: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AHEAD: ACRONYMS FOR HEALTH INFORMATION RESOURCES [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. AHEAD: Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary [home, info]
  2. AHEAD: Acronym Finder [home, info]
  3. AHEAD: AbbreviationZ [home, info]
  4. ahead: Idioms [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. AHEAD: Glossary of Canoe Terminology [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AHEAD: Glossary of Nautical Terms [home, info]
  2. ahead: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]
  3. Ahead: Latitude Mexico [home, info]

Quick definitions (ahead)

adverb:  at or in the front ("I see the lights of a town ahead")
adverb:  ahead of time; in anticipation ("When you pay ahead (or in advance) you receive a discount")
adverb:  in a forward direction ("Go ahead")
adverb:  leading or ahead in a competition ("The horse was three lengths ahead going into the home stretch")
adverb:  to a different or a more advanced time (meaning advanced either toward the present or toward the future) ("Moved the appointment ahead from Tuesday to Monday")
adverb:  to a more advanced or advantageous position ("A young man sure to get ahead")
adverb:  toward the future; forward in time ("I like to look ahead in imagination to what the future may bring")

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Words similar to ahead:   leading, onward, before, beforehand, forrader, forward, forwards, onwards, afore, first, in advance, in front, in the lead, oncoming, out front, winning, more...


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