AFORE — Definition + English Wordle Word

adv

archaic, dialectal, not-comparableBefore, temporally.
“Stephano: He's in his fit now ; and doe's not talke after the wiſeſt ; hee ſhall taſte of my Bottle : if hee haue neuer drunke wine afore, it will goe neere to remoue his Fit :[…]”
“A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.”
archaic, dialectal, not-comparableBefore, in front, spatially.
“He sees the soldiers, with their red coats lighted up by the torches carried afore, closing in round him.”
archaic, dialectal, not-comparableIn the fore part of a ship.

prep

Before; in advance of the time of.
“He said he was jealous, and craved something to ease his care. 'It's but a small thing I ask,' says he, 'but it will make me a happy man, and nothing ever shall come atween us. Tryst wi' me for Beltan”
“"Oh aye!" his face lit up with a smile. "I mind that! Where was that?" "That was us when we all worked in the shop, afore the War." "Oh aye …?" he frowned. "Who …?" She took the photograph back from h”
Before; situated geographically or metaphorically in front of.

conj

In advance of the time when; before.
“Now the hand of the Lord was vpon mee in the euening, afore hee that was escaped came, and had opened my mouth vntill hee came to mee in the morning, and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumbe.”