fore
adjective/fɔː(r)/
/fɔːr/
[only before noun] (specialist)- located at the front of a ship, an aircraft or an animal compare aft, hindTopics Transport by waterc2Word 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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