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Synonyms for before
bɪˈfɔr, -ˈfoʊrbe·fore

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Wiktionary5.0 / 1 vote

  1. beforepreposition

    Synonyms:
    ahead, previously

    Antonyms:
    after

  2. beforeadverb

    in advance of the time when

    I've never done this before.

    Synonyms:
    by, ahead, previously

    Antonyms:
    later, after

  3. beforepreposition

    in advance

    He stood before me.

    Synonyms:
    ahead, in front of, previously

    Antonyms:
    after, behind

  4. beforeconjunction

    In alphabetical order, cat comes before dog, canine before feline.

    Antonyms:
    after

  5. beforeconjunction

    Synonyms:
    lest

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms4.0 / 4 votes

  1. before

    Synonyms:
    precedently, anteriorly, antecedently

    Antonyms:
    after, afterwards, subsequently, posteriorly, later, behind

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. earlier, beforeadverb

    earlier in time; previously

    "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"

    Synonyms:
    in the beginning, originally, ahead, to begin with, sooner, in front, earlier, in the first place

  2. ahead, in front, beforeadverb

    at or in the front

    "I see the lights of a town ahead"; "the road ahead is foggy"; "staring straight ahead"; "we couldn't see over the heads of the people in front"; "with the cross of Jesus marching on before"

    Synonyms:
    forwards, in front, ahead, in advance, earlier, forrader, beforehand, onwards, onward, in the lead, forward, out front

Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. precedently

    plz help all languages most english language synonyms of precedently meaning is not work solve it.

    before synonymous precedently

    Submitted by debajoyti906 on March 24, 2021  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. beforeprep.

    Synonyms:
    preceding

  2. beforeprep.

    Synonyms:
    prior to, previous to

  3. beforeprep.

    Synonyms:
    in the presence of, face to face with

  4. beforeprep.

    Synonyms:
    near the front of, in front of

  5. beforeadjective

    Synonyms:
    toward the front

  6. beforeadjective

    Synonyms:
    in advance, farther onward

  7. beforeadjective

    Synonyms:
    formerly, in time past, of old

  8. beforeadjective

    Synonyms:
    hitherto, up to that time

  9. beforeadjective

    Synonyms:
    above, in a former part

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. beforeprep

    Synonyms:
    preceding, ahead of, anterior to, previously to, prior

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How to use before in a sentence?

  1. Mitch McConnell:

    I think any doubts anybody might have had been dispelled by his virtuoso performance before the The Judiciary Committee.

  2. Meek Mill:

    I talked to him Meek Mill, just before you speak, think 10 times before you speak... make sure you're educated about the things you're speaking on and really addressing things in the proper way.

  3. Alex Pietrangelo:

    It was news to us when we arrived, crimmer’s coached before, we had the (coaches) from Henderson come up, they know what they’re doing, too. So we didn’t know what the plan was originally, but it worked out fine.

  4. Kate Caithness:

    To be fair in the past, we’ve always said the United States were our sleeping giant. It actually woken up before the Olympics, but of course with Shuster and his team winning gold, I mean it’s now gone crazy.

  5. Chez Valenta:

    It was the busiest period in the history of EMSin NYC, FDNY Deputy Commissioner for Public Information Frank Dwyer toldFox News. Calls surged to [the] high 5,000s and over 6,000. The highest one-day number of 911 calls was6,500 on March 30. Paramedics don gowns, gloves, goggles and N95 masks before they enter a home. Six percent of the FDNY’s 4,400 EMS workers are currently on COVID 19 medical leave. We had never seen anything like this before, in terms of magnitude and severity, The Queens-basedparamedic said. In those four weeks, it was really bad. I would finish a call, hit the available button, and Id immediately get another cardiac arrest. It was just like rinse and repeat, rinse and repeat for 16 hours, come back eight hours later, and do it all again. When asked what the hardest part of that four-week stretch was, the paramedic said,Not being able to save most of these people. This was a very dark period for me because no one was coming back, we werent able to resuscitate anyone. I got close once, but that person died too.It was just something I had never experienced at all during this job. It wasmentally exhausting and it was emotionally fatiguing. Dwyer told Fox that the FDNYs Counseling Services Unit (CSU) is available for all first responders. During the pandemic, CSU messaging has been provided to field units on a daily basis, including being sent directly to computers on board ambulances.


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