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aforesaid

/əˈfɔːsɛd//əˈfɔɹsɛd/

aforesaid adjective: previously stated; said or named before.

Adjective

aforesaid (not comparable)

  1. Previously stated; said or named before.
    • I soon took pity upon them and on myself, and rode off; but before I had crossed the aforesaid green glade, I heard their voices and laughter rising gaily as before. Very impertinent!1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter III, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 30
    • ARIEL: Well, as I was trying to do, before you came in and said all those things, my first step would be to torture the prisoner with the aforesaid electricity, wasn't it?2003, Martin McDonagh, “Act Three”, in The Pillowman, →ISBN, page 83

aforesaid meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

aforesaid in Hindi

previously stated
पूर्वोक्त pūrvokt

aforesaid in Tamil

முன்சொன்ன, முன்னுரைத்த, மேற்சொன்ன

aforesaid in Urdu

سابقہ گفتگو

aforesaid in Malayalam

aforementioned, previously mentioned, aforenamed
ഉപര്യുക്ത, മേൽപ്പറഞ്ഞ, നടേപറഞ്ഞ, മേലുദ്ധരിച്ച, പൂർവ്വ, പൂർവ്വോക്തം
More languagesFewer languages
aforesaid in Arabic
مَذْكُور آنِفًا maḏkūr ʔānifan

Synonyms of aforesaid

Antonyms

Origin of aforesaid

From Middle English aforesaid(e), aforeseid(e), past participle of aforesayen, aforeseyen, aforeseien, aforeseggen; formed with the prefix afore- and the several forms of seien (“to say”). Equivalent to afore- + said.

Questions about aforesaid

What does aforesaid mean?
Aforesaid means previously stated; said or named before.
What is aforesaid in Hindi?
Aforesaid in Hindi is पूर्वोक्त (pūrvokt). See Aforesaid meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is aforesaid?
Aforesaid is an adjective.
How do you pronounce aforesaid?
Aforesaid is pronounced /əˈfɔɹsɛd/ (US).

Words near aforesaid in the dictionary

  1. aforequoted
  2. aforerecited
  3. aforerehearsed
  4. aforerelated
  5. aforereported
  6. aforesaid
  7. aforesaide
  8. aforesayd
  9. aforeseen
  10. aforeset
  11. aforeshewn

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: aforesaid (page history and authors); aforesaid (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aforesaid (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); aforesaid (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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