fore
The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.
Adjective
- Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous.
- the fore part of the day
- Forward; situated towards the front (of something).
- The fore end of the tape is drawn out, and when the indicator points to this number the end is firmly fixed to the front of the camera. - 1921, The Photographic Journal, page 8:
- Crystal vases with crimson roses and golden-brown asters were set here and there in the fore part of the shop […] - 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 23:
Origin
A development of the prefix fore-.
Forms
Antonyms
Adverb
- In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
- Formerly; previously; afore.
- The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are. - 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 7”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- In or towards the bows of a ship.
- fore and aft
Antonyms: aft
Derived
back and fore first fore-and-aft fore and aft fore-and-aft cap fore-and-after fore and aft rig fore-and-aft-rigged foreanent fore arm forecheck foredraft fore edge forehatch forehead foreline foremast foremost forereef foreright foreshore foreward fore wing to the fore
Interjection
- An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.
Noun
- The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.
- The waiting-room was now less empty than Watt had at first supposed, to judge by the presence, some two paces to Watt's fore, and as many to his right, of what seemed to be an object of some importance. - 1953, Samuel...
- People face a dilemma whenever they bring to the fore an understanding that appears inadequate in the light of the other beliefs they bring to bear on it. - 2002, Mark Bevir, The Logic of the History of Ideas: