fore

A development of the prefix fore-.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fɔː/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fɔɹ/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /fo(ː)ɹ/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /foə/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)
• Homophones: four, for (in accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

fore (comparative former, superlative foremost)

1. (obsolete) Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous. [15th–18th c.]

   the fore part of the day

2. Forward; situated towards the front (of something). [from 16th c.]
   • 1921, The Photographic Journal, page 8:

     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.

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 23:

     Crystal vases with crimson roses and golden-brown asters were set here and there in the fore part of the shop […]

• (antonym(s) of “order”): latter
• (antonym(s) of “location”): aft

fore

1. (golf) An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.

fore (uncountable)

1. The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.
   • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

     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.

   • 2002, Mark Bevir, The Logic of the History of Ideas:

     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.

fore (not comparable)

1. In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
2. (obsolete) Formerly; previously; afore.
   • 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:

     The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are.

3. (nautical) In or towards the bows of a ship.

   Antonym: aft

• Fero, Freo, OFer, froe, o-fer, ofer, orfe

fore

1. Mixed mutation of bore.

for +‎ -e

• IPA^(key): [ˈfore]
• Rhymes: -ore
• Hyphenation: fo‧re

fore

1. far away

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fore

1. inflection of forer:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

for +‎ -e

fore

1. (far) away, afar

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɔ.re/
• Rhymes: -ɔre
• Hyphenation: fò‧re

fore

1. (archaic, literary) Alternative form of fuori
   1. out, outside, outwards (towards the outside)
      • late 13^th century, Guido Guinizelli, Al cor gentil rempaira sempre amore [Love always dwells in the noble heart]‎, lines 11–12, 15–17; republished in Gianfranco Contini, editor, Poeti italiani del Duecento, volume 2, Milan, Naples: Riccardo Ricciardi, 1960:

        Foco d’amore in gentil cor s’aprende
        come vertute in petra prezïosa,
        […]
        poi che n’ha tratto fòre
        per sua forza lo sol ciò che li è vile,
        stella li dà valore

        The flame of love seizes the noble heart like virtue [does] a gem, […] after the Sun has brought out of it, through its might, what of it is lowly; a star gives it value

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.re/, [ˈfɔrɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.re/, [ˈfɔːre]

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fore

1. ablative singular of foris

Formally present active infinitive corresponding to fuī (“I have been”), irregular perfect indicative of sum (“I am”). From Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to become, be”), cognate with Old English bēo (“I become, I will be, I am”). In classical Latin, the fu- forms of sum are mostly limited to the perfect tenses, but old Latin has alternate present and imperfect subjunctive forms fuam and forem (for classical sim and essem) suggesting the root could once be fully conjugated. After being incorporated in the conjugation of sum, the meaning of fore shifted from the original "to become" to the classical "to be going to be".

• futūrus esse

fore

1. future active infinitive of sum

• Also used in the construction fore ut in place of a future passive infinitive in indirect discourse:

  Crēdō fore ut ea laudētur.

  I believe it would be that she will be praised.

  (literally, “I believe it to be going to be that she is praised.”)

• “fore”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fore”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fore in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fore in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

fore

1. fore

• Scots: fore
• English: fore

fore

1. four

fore

1. therefore

• fóre

fore f (definite singular fora, indefinite plural forer, definite plural forene)

1. behaviour
2. footprints, tracks
3. (economics) ability, standing

Derived from for (“travel”), from Old Norse fǫr, but made a weak noun. From earlier Proto-Germanic *farō.

• fòre

fore f (definite singular fora, indefinite plural forer, definite plural forene)

1. alternative form of for

From fòr (“furrow”).

• fora, fòra, fòre

fore (present tense forar, past tense fora, past participle fora, passive infinitive forast, present participle forande, imperative fore/for)

1. to furrow

Inherited from Old Norse fóðra.

• fora, fôra, fôre

fore (present tense forar, past tense fora, past participle fora, passive infinitive forast, present participle forande, imperative fore/for)

1. to fodder animals
   1. to breed, raise
2. to gather food, fodder
3. to feed

• fôr n (“fodder”)

Made from fôr (“lining of clothes”)

• fora, fôra, fôre

fore (present tense forar, past tense fora, past participle fora, passive infinitive forast, present participle forande, imperative fore/for)

1. (transitive) to line (clothes)
2. (transitive) to clad with covering layers

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

fore

1. inflection of for:
   1. definite singular
   2. plural

• “fore” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

fore

1. (dated) past subjunctive of fara

• efor

• (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔrɛ/
  • (North Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /ˈvɔra/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /ˈvoːrɛ/, /ˈvɔrɛ/

fore

1. Soft mutation of bore (“morning”).