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ahead of

ahead of preposition: in front of.

Preposition

ahead of

  1. In front of.
    • A hill loomed ahead of them.
    • The island bore but little a-head of us.1754, Henry Fielding, The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
  2. Preceding.
    • He's giving a series of concerts in London ahead of his international tour.
  3. In the future of.
    • You have a long trip ahead of you.
    • Peter has a lot of work ahead of him.
  4. In advance of.
    • I arrived at the suite half an hour ahead of Jack.
  5. Having made more progress than.
    • He is far ahead of his class in math.
    • The Reggie Clemons case has been a cause of legal dispute for the past two decades. Prosecutors alleged that he and his co-defendants brutally cut short the lives of Julie and Robin Kerry, sisters who had just started college and had their whole adult lives ahead of them.2012 August 21, Ed Pilkington, “Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?”, in The Guardian

ahead of meaning in Malayalam

ahead of in Malayalam

in front of, before
മുമ്പിൽ, മുമ്പെ, മുമ്പ്, മുൻപാകെ, മുൻപിൽ, മുൻഭാഗത്ത്
in store for, waiting for
മുമ്പിൽ, കാത്തുവച്ച്, കരുതിവച്ച്, കരുതിവച്ചഅവസ്ഥയിൽ, സംഭാവ്യമായി, തയ്യാറായി
before, in advance of, earlier than
മുമ്പേ, നേരത്തേ, മുൻകൂറായി, വിചാരിച്ചതിലും നേരത്തേ, സമയത്തിനു മുമ്പേ, നിശ്ചിതസമയത്തിനുമുമ്പ്
more advanced than, further on than, superior to
കൂടുതൽ മുന്നേറി, പുരോഗമിച്ച്, ബഹുദൂരം മുന്നിലായി, വളരെ പുരോഗമിച്ച്, മികച്ച്, മറ്റുള്ളവരെ കവച്ചുവച്ച്

Words formed from ahead of

Questions about ahead of

What does ahead of mean?
Ahead of means in front of.
What is ahead of in Malayalam?
Ahead of in Malayalam is മുമ്പിൽ, മുമ്പെ, മുമ്പ്. See Ahead of meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is ahead of?
Ahead of is a preposition.

Words near ahead of in the dictionary

  1. AHD
  2. AHDB
  3. AHE
  4. ahead
  5. ahead in the count
  6. ahead of
  7. ahead of one's time
  8. ahead of schedule
  9. ahead of the curve
  10. ahead of the game
  11. ahead of the pack

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: ahead of (page history and authors); ahead of (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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