afore

Etymology
From, , from or ; equivalent to.

Adverb

 * 1)  Before.
 * 2)  In the fore part of a ship.
 * 1)  In the fore part of a ship.
 * 1)  In the fore part of a ship.

Preposition

 * 1) Before; in advance of the time of.
 * 2) Before; situated geographically or metaphorically in front of.
 * 1) Before; situated geographically or metaphorically in front of.
 * 1) Before; situated geographically or metaphorically in front of.

Conjunction

 * 1) In advance of the time when; before.

Etymology
From or ; equivalent to.

Adverb

 * 1) before; afore

Preposition

 * 1) before; afore: in advance of the time of
 * 2) * c. 1370–1450, Laurence de Premierfait, Des cas des nobles hommes et femmes, as quoted in Lydgate's Fall of Princes (1923, The Carnegie Institution of Washington):
 * "enm"

- Affor tyme thei wer but bestiall, Till thei to resoun be lawes wer constreyned, Vndir discrecioun bi statutis naturall


 * 1) before; afore: situated geographically or metaphorically in front of
 * 2) * 1399, Rich. Redeless IV, 72
 * "enm"

- and somme were so ffers at ffrist come, that they bente on a bonet, and bare a topte saile affor the wynde ffresshely, to make a good ffare

Conjunction

 * 1) before; afore: in advance of the time when

Etymology
From, , from or ; equivalent to.

Adverb

 * 1)  before, in front
 * 2)  before, previously, in advance

Preposition

 * 1)  before, in front of
 * 2)  before

Conjunction

 * 1)  before, rather than