different between before vs history
before
English
Alternative forms
- befo (pronunciation spelling)
- befo' (pronunciation spelling)
Etymology
From Middle English before, bifore (adverb and preposition), from Old English beforan, from be- + foran (“before”), from fore, from Proto-Germanic *furai, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“front”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian befoar (“before”), German Low German bevör (“before”), German bevor (“before”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: b?fô?, IPA(key): /b??f??/
- (General American) enPR: b?fôr?, b?fôr?, IPA(key): /b??f??/, /bi?f??/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: b?f?r?, IPA(key): /b??fo(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /b??fo?/
- Hyphenation: be?fore
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Preposition
before
- Earlier than (in time).
- In front of in space.
- His angel, who shall go / Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire.
- He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. […] But she said she must go back, and when they joined the crowd again […] she found her mother standing up before the seat on which she had sat all the evening searching anxiously for her with her eyes, and her father by her side.
- In the presence of.
- He performed before the troops in North Africa.
- He spoke before a joint session of Congress.
- Under consideration, judgment, authority of (someone).
- 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani
- If a suit be begun before an archdeacon […]
- 1726, John Ayliffe, Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani
- In store for, in the future of (someone).
- In front of, according to a formal system of ordering items.
- At a higher or greater position than, in a ranking.
Synonyms
- (earlier than in time): by, no later than, previous to, prior to, ere (obsolete)
- (in front of in space): ahead of, in front of
- (in front of according to an ordering system): ahead of
Antonyms
- (earlier than in time): after, later than
- (in front of in space): behind
- (in front of according to an ordering system): after
Translations
Adverb
before (not comparable)
- At an earlier time.
- In advance.
- At the front end.
- 1896, Hilaire Belloc, The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts, “The Elephant”:
- When people call this beast to mind,
They marvel more and more
At such a little tail behind,
So LARGE a trunk before.
- When people call this beast to mind,
- 1896, Hilaire Belloc, The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts, “The Elephant”:
Synonyms
- (at an earlier time): previously
- (in advance): ahead
- (at the front end): in front
Antonyms
- (at an earlier time): after
- (at the front end): behind
Derived terms
- beforehand
- beforetime
Translations
Conjunction
before
- In advance of the time when.
- before this elaborate treatise can become of universal use and ornament to my native country, two points […] are absolutely necessary.
- (informal) Rather or sooner than.
Synonyms
- (rather than): lest
Translations
References
- before at OneLook Dictionary Search
- Andrea Tyler and Vyvyan Evans, "Spatial particles of orientation", in The Semantics of English Prepositions: Spatial Scenes, Embodied Meaning and Cognition, Cambridge University Press, 2003, 0-521-81430 8
Anagrams
- borfee
before From the web:
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history
English
Alternative forms
- historie (obsolete)
- hystory (nonstandard)
- hystorie (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English historie, from Old French estoire, estorie (“chronicle, history, story”) (French histoire), from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ??????? (historí?, “learning through research”), from ??????? (historé?, “to research, inquire (and) record”), from ????? (híst?r, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Doublet of story and storey.
Attested in Middle English in 1393 by John Gower, Confessio Amantis, which was aimed at an educated audience familiar with French and Latin.
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?s?t(?)r?, h?s?tr?, IPA(key): /?h?st(?)?i/, /?h?st(?)??/
- Hyphenation: his?to?ry, hist?ory
Noun
history (countable and uncountable, plural histories)
- The aggregate of past events.
- Synonyms: background, past
- The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.
- (countable) A set of events involving an entity.
- (countable) A record or narrative description of past events.
- Synonyms: account, chronicle, story, tale
- (countable, medicine) A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.
- Synonym: medical history
- (countable, computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.
- Synonym: log
- (informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.
- (uncountable) Shared experience or interaction.
Derived terms
Descendants
- Pitcairn-Norfolk: histrei
Translations
Verb
history (third-person singular simple present histories, present participle historying, simple past and past participle historied)
- (obsolete) To narrate or record.
References
Further reading
- history on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- history at OneLook Dictionary Search
- history in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
- "history" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 146.
- history in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Toryish, Troyish, roytish
Middle English
Noun
history
- Alternative form of historie
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