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afore

[ uh-fawr, uh-fohr ]

/ əˈfɔr, əˈfoʊr /

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adverb, preposition, conjunction Older Use.

before.

Origin of afore

before 900; late Middle English; Middle English aforne, aforen, Old English on foran. See a-¹, fore¹

Words nearby afore

afnor, afocal, afognak, afonso, afoot, afore, aforehand, aforementioned, aforesaid, aforethought, aforetime

Example sentences from the Web for afore

And till us, afore ye go, how ye want this dam, and that's the way she'll be.

The Riverman |Stewart Edward White
It wont be long now afore Im with the others that have waited for me all this time up there on Croft Hill.

Cursed |George Allan England
But ye maun let his hour of danger, as he ca's it, be ower, afore ye venture on him in his place of refuge.

Old Mortality, Complete, Illustrated |Sir Walter Scott
Didn't I help the old man, afore he grew too weak to hold his shootin' iron, to send a few on 'em off to rub out the account?

The Swamp Doctor's Adventures in The South-West |John Robb

I asked him if that was afore he got religin, and he said never you mind.

Peck's Bad Boy and His Pa |George W. Peck

British Dictionary definitions for afore

afore

/ (əˈfɔː) /

adverb, preposition, conjunction

an archaic or dialect word for before