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Meaning of forewinter | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. The period immediately preceding or leading up to winter.
  2. The early part of winter.

Examples

“Anybody seeing him all that forewinter long going about the sadder verges of the city might have⟳ rightly wondered what his trade⟳ was, this refugee reprieved from the river and its fishes. Haunting the streets in a castoff peacoat.”
“The Early Winter, or Forewinter, period has a much less easily defined character, being dominated by alternations of progressive (W'ly or cyclonic) and blocked (anticyclonic) periods in Europe, […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

forewisdom forewit forewold Forewoman Forewomen Foreword

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