Usually means: Period preceding the current moment.
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  1. beforetime: Merriam-Webster
  2. beforetime: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. beforetime: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. beforetime: Collins English Dictionary
  5. beforetime: Wordnik
  6. beforetime: Wiktionary
  7. beforetime: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. beforetime: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Beforetime, beforetime: Dictionary.com
  10. Beforetime: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. beforetime: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Beforetime: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. beforetime: FreeDictionary.org
  14. beforetime: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  15. beforetime: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adverb:  (archaic) Formerly, previously.

Similar:
aforetime, erer, priorly, heretoforetime, beforely, toforetime, fore, herebefore, foretime, before-hand, more...

Opposite:
afterward, subsequently, later, following

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Similar:
aforetime, erer, priorly, heretoforetime, beforely, toforetime, fore, herebefore, foretime, before-hand, more...

Opposite:
afterward, subsequently, later, following



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