Meaning of before | Babel Free

Definitions

1. At an earlier time.
   not-comparable
2. In advance in position or sequence; ahead.
   literary, not-comparable, poetic
3. At the front end.
   not-comparable, uncommon

Equivalents

Examples

“I've never done this before.”

“This achievement far exceeded anything that had come before.”

“All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion—or rather as a transition from the subject that started their conversation—such talk had been distressingly out of place.”

“We walked behind while they went before.”

“When people call this beast to mind, They marvel more and more At such a little tail behind, So LARGE a trunk before.”

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