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/bɪˈfɔː/

Happening or existing earlier in time or order

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I eat before work.He left before dinner yesterday.

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Originating in Old English "beforan," from the Germanic roots meaning by plus fore, the word evolved to represent concepts of precedence in both time and space.

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