Local English word record

before

adverb · 2 senses

earlier in time; previously

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Examples

  • I had known her before
  • as I said before
  • he called me the day before but your call had come even earlier
  • her parents had died four years earlier
  • I mentioned that problem earlier

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Synonyms

earlier

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Princeton WordNet 3.0