Antonyms for before
bɪˈfɔr, -ˈfoʊrbe·fore

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1. beforepreposition

   Antonyms:
   after

   Synonyms:
   ahead, previously

2. beforeadverb

   in advance of the time when

   I've never done this before.

   Antonyms:
   later, after

   Synonyms:
   by, ahead, previously

3. beforepreposition

   in advance

   He stood before me.

   Antonyms:
   after, behind

   Synonyms:
   ahead, in front of, previously

4. beforeconjunction

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

   Antonyms:
   after

5. beforeconjunction

   Synonyms:
   lest

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1. before

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

   Synonyms:
   precedently, anteriorly, antecedently

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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

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1. beforeprep

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

How to use before in a sentence?

1. Donald Trump:

   Hillary Clinton, for months, and despite so many attacks, has repeatedly refused to even say the words ‘radical Islam,’ just a few weeks before the San Bernardino slaughter, Clinton explained her refusal to say the words. She said Muslims are peaceful and tolerant people, nothing to do with terrorism. That is Hillary Clinton.

2. Jennifer Talarico:

   That doesn’t carry through when you can’t pan through to Mom in the crowd, mom isn’t there. She’s still in the same place that she was before. I think that makes the crowd aspect of the Olympics even more influential than a major league baseball game.

3. Michael Irwig:

   Basically, nobody had really done a similar survey before.

4. Thore Kristiansen:

   But this is frontier drilling. Nobody has done it before and there is a high likelihood that we will not find anything, we have applied the same ... models for what we are doing in Portugal. But the reality is that we don't know.

5. Kieran Trippier:

   We’ve made a real good progression over the years, i spoke to some of the younger lads before the tournament and said, ‘ Have no fears. Enjoy it because they are only around every couple of years these tournaments. ’.

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