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former
English
Alternative forms
- fmr / fmr.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?f??m?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?f??m?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)m?(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English former, comparative of forme (“first”), from Old English forma (“first”), descended from Proto-Germanic *frumô. Parallel to prior (via Latin), as comparative form from same Proto-Indo-European root. Related to first and fore (thence before), from Proto-Germanic.
Adjective
former (comparative form only)
- Previous.
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
- First of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun.
Synonyms
- (previous): erstwhile, sometime, whilom, wont-to-be; see also Thesaurus:former
Antonyms
- (previous): next; see also Thesaurus:subsequent
- (first of aforementioned two items): latter
Translations
Etymology 2
form +? -er
Noun
former (plural formers)
- Someone who forms something; a maker; a creator or founder.
- Dave was the former of the company.
- An object used to form something, such as a template, gauge, or cutting die.
- The brick arch was built using a wooden former.
- (chiefly Britain, used in combinations) Someone in, or of, a certain form (class).
- Fifth-former.
- Sixth-former.
Derived terms
- pan former
Anagrams
- Reform, re-form, reform
Danish
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [?f??m?]
Noun
former c
- indefinite plural of form
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [?f??m?]
Verb
former
- present of forme
Etymology 3
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [f??me???]
Verb
former or formér
- imperative of formere
French
Etymology
From Old French, borrowed from Latin f?rm? (“to form”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f??.me/
Verb
former
- to form (generic sense)
- to shape (to make into a certain shape)
- to train; to educate
Conjugation
Related terms
- formation
- forme
Further reading
- “former” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Verb
f?rmer
- first-person singular present passive subjunctive of f?rm?
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
former m or f
- indefinite plural of form
Verb
former
- present of forme
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
former f
- indefinite plural of form
Swedish
Noun
former
- indefinite plural of form
Anagrams
- reform
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extinct
English
Etymology
Recorded since 1432; borrowed from Latin extinctus, the past participle of extinguere (“to put out, destroy, abolish, extinguish”), corresponding to ex- + stinguere (“to quench”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k?st??kt/, /?k?st??kt/
- Rhymes: -??kt
Adjective
extinct (not comparable)
- (dated) Extinguished, no longer alight (of fire, candles etc.)
- Poor Edward's cigarillo was already extinct.
- No longer used; obsolete, discontinued.
- The title became extinct when the last baron died.
- Luckily, such ideas about race are extinct in current sociological theory.
- Indeed the very fact that the English spelling system writes in there as two words but therein as one word might be taken as suggesting that only the former is a productive syntactic construction in Modern English, the latter being a now extinct construction which has left behind a few fossil remnants in the form of compound words such as thereby.
- (of a group of organisms, as a species) No longer in existence; having died out.
- (geology) No longer active.
Synonyms
- (no longer used): See also Thesaurus:obsolete
- (having died out): See also Thesaurus:inexistent
- (volcanology: no longer erupting): dead
Antonyms
- (no longer alight): burning
- (having died out): extant; See also Thesaurus:existent
- (volcanology: no longer erupting): active, dormant
Related terms
- extinction
- extinctive
- extinguish
- distinct
Translations
Further reading
- extinct at OneLook Dictionary Search
- extinct in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- extinct in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Verb
extinct (third-person singular simple present extincts, present participle extincting, simple past and past participle extincted)
- (transitive, nonstandard) To make extinct; to extinguish or annihilate.
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