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)

A development of the prefix fore-.

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.]

   the fore end of a wagon

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 23:

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

• (order): latter
• (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.

   The fore was painted white.

   • 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-and-aft
• foremost
• forehead

fore (not comparable)

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

     The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are.

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

fore

1. simple past tense of fare

• Freo, froe, o-fer, orfe

fore

1. Mixed mutation of bore.

for +‎ -e

fore

1. far away

fore

1. first-person singular present indicative of forer
2. third-person singular present indicative of forer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of forer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of forer
5. second-person singular imperative of forer

for +‎ -e

fore

1. (far) away, afar

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfo.re/, [ˈfɔ.rɛ]

See foris.

fore

1. ablative singular of foris

Formally present active infinitive corresponding to fui (“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".

fore

1. future active infinitive of sum (in addition to the regular form futūrus esse).
2. Also used in the construction fore ut in place of a future passive infinitive in indirect discourse.

   Crēdō fore ut ea laudētur

   I believe she will be 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, 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

• (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”).