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foretime

noun

Etymology

1530s, from fore- + time.

  1. derived from *deh₂y-✻
  2. derived from *deh₂imō✻
  3. inherited from *tīmô✻
  4. inherited from *tīmō✻
  5. inherited from tīma — “time, period, space of time, season, lifetime, fixed time, favorable time, opportunity”
  6. inherited from tyme
  7. prefixed as foretime — “fore + time”

Definitions

  1. A time previous to the present, or to a time alluded to or implied

    A time previous to the present, or to a time alluded to or implied; former time or times.

  2. In former times.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for foretime. 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