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foreperson

noun

Etymology

From fore- + person.

  1. derived from 𐌘𐌄𐌓𐌔𐌖 — “mask”
  2. derived from persōna — “mask used by actor; role, part, character”
  3. derived from parsone
  4. inherited from persoun
  5. prefixed as foreperson — “fore + person”

Definitions

  1. A leader of a work crew.

  2. The member of a jury who presides over it and speaks on its behalf.

  3. A forefather, predecessor.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for foreperson. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA