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before-hand

before-hand is the archaic form of beforehand.

Meaning of beforehand

Adverb

beforehand (not comparable)

  1. At an earlier or preceding time.
    • Will it be possible to have access to the room beforehand so that we can set up chairs?

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Questions about before-hand

What is before-hand the archaic form of?
Before-hand is the archaic form of beforehand.

Words near before-hand in the dictionary

  1. before you can say Jack Robinson
  2. before you can say knife
  3. before't
  4. before-and-after
  5. before-and-afters
  6. before-hand
  7. before-mentioned
  8. beforecited
  9. beforehand
  10. beforehand in the world
  11. beforehand with the world

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Adapted from Wiktionary: before-hand (page history and authors); beforehand (page history and authors). 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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