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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
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unda
Adnyamathanha
Noun
(black) wallaby
cf Ngadjuri gunda, (small wallaby)
Interlingua
Noun
unda (plural undas)
- wave
Latin
Etymology
De Vaan connects this word to Umbrian ???????????????? (utur, “water”), suggesting a direct origin from Proto-Indo-European *wódr?.
The resemblance to Proto-Germanic *unþ? (“wave”) appears to be accidental, with at most minor semantic confluence.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?un.da/, [??n?d?ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?un.da/, [?un?d??]
Noun
unda f (genitive undae); first declension
- wave
- billow
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- unda in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- unda in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- unda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?[2], London: Macmillan and Co.
Northern Kurdish
Adjective
unda
- Alternative form of winda
Papiamentu
Etymology
From Portuguese onde and Spanish donde and Kabuverdianu undi.
Adverb
unda
- where
Romanian
Etymology 1
Noun
unda f
- definite nominative/accusative singular of und?
Etymology 2
From Latin und?re, present active infinitive of und?. Compare Aromanian undedz, undari.
Verb
a unda (third-person singular present undeaz?, past participle undat) 1st conj.
- (rare) to undulate, wave, make move like a wave
- (popular) to bubble up, boil, seethe, surge
Conjugation
Synonyms
- undi
- (undulate): undui, ondula
- (boil): fierbe, (rare) clocoti
Related terms
Romansch
Alternative forms
- (Surmiran) onda
- (Puter, Vallader) uonda
Etymology
From Latin unda.
Noun
unda f (plural undas)
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) wave
Swahili
Pronunciation
Verb
-unda (infinitive kuunda)
- manufacture, construct
Inflection
unda From the web:
- what undaunted chest to open
- what's undateables on
- undaunted meaning
- unda meaning
- what's undated mean
- undaunted means
- undam meaning
- unfazed mean
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