Fore
- prep. Before; — sometimes written ‘fore as if a contraction of afore or before.
- v. i. Journey; way; method of proceeding.
- adv. In the part that precedes or goes first; — opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
- adv. Formerly; previously; afore.
- adv. In or towards the bows of a ship.
- adv. Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; — opposed to back or behind; as, the fore part of a garment; the fore part of the day; the fore and of a wagon.
- n. The front; hence, that which is in front; the future.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.