Usually means: Before, previously in time, place.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. afore: Merriam-Webster
  2. afore, afore-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. afore: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. afore: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Afore, afore: Wordnik
  6. afore: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. afore, afore-: Wiktionary
  8. afore, afore-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. afore: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Afore, afore: Dictionary.com
  11. afore: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Afore: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Afore: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. afore: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Afore: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. afore: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. AFORE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  18. afore, afore-: MyWord.info
  19. afore: FreeDictionary.org
  20. afore: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  21. afore: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. afore: Merriam-Webster

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AFORE: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (afore)

▸ adverb:  (archaic, dialect) Before.
▸ adverb:  (nautical) In the fore part of a ship.

Similar:
fore, aforetime, aforehand, tofore, previously, erer, beforetime, before-hand, herebefore, anteriorly, more...

Opposite:
behind, hind, after

Types:
before, after, during, in the middle of, in the meantime, more...

Phrases:
afore the mast, afore mentioned, afore now, more...

Adjectives:
long, dead, little, like, such, much, drunk, good, dark, muckle, minute


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Similar:
fore, aforetime, aforehand, tofore, previously, erer, beforetime, before-hand, herebefore, anteriorly, more...

Opposite:
behind, hind, after

Types:
before, after, during, in the middle of, in the meantime, more...

Phrases:
afore the mast, afore mentioned, afore now, more...

Adjectives:
long, dead, little, like, such, much, drunk, good, dark, muckle, minute



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