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foregroup

foregroup noun: a previous or prior grouping or assemblage.

Noun

foregroup (plural foregroups)

  1. A previous or prior grouping or assemblage.
    • The most striking personage in the foregroup of visitors was one who had taken off his hat and disclosed a forehead of supernatural height, though of extreme narrowness, reminding one somewhat of the chimney of a parafiin lamp; […]1897, Edward Jenkins, Pantalas and what They Did with Him
  2. A group positioned in the fore or out front.
    • Sometimes the former were composed into a foregroup while the latter were consigned to the background; at other times the holy people were placed in a raised or semi-celestial station, the evil ones were "terrestrialized" in a lower station.1987, Jewish quarterly review

Forms of foregroup

pluralforegroups

Origin of foregroup

From fore- + group.

Questions about foregroup

What does foregroup mean?
Foregroup means a previous or prior grouping or assemblage.
What part of speech is foregroup?
Foregroup is a noun.
What is the plural of foregroup?
The plural of foregroup is foregroups.

Words near foregroup in the dictionary

  1. foregrounded
  2. foregrounder
  3. foregrounders
  4. foregrounding
  5. foregrounds
  6. foregroup
  7. foregroups
  8. foreguard
  9. foreguards
  10. foreguess
  11. foreguessed

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