fore
adverb/fɔː(r)/
/fɔːr/
- (specialist) at or towards the front of a ship or an aircraft compare aftTopics Sports: water sportsc2
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- Fore!used in the game of golf to warn people that they are in the path of a ball that you are hittingTopics Sports: ball and racket sportsc2
Word OriginOld English (as a preposition, also in the sense ‘before in time, previously’): of Germanic origin; related to Dutch voor and German vor. The adjective and noun represent the prefix fore- used independently (late 15th cent.).
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