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forewinters

forewinters is the plural of forewinter.

Meaning of forewinter

Noun

forewinter (plural forewinters)

  1. The period immediately preceding or leading up to winter.
    • Anybody seeing him all that forewinter long going about the sadder verges of the city might have rightly wondered what his trade was, this refugee reprieved from the river and its fishes. Haunting the streets in a castoff peacoat.2010, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, page 381
  2. The early part of winter.
    • The Early Winter, or Forewinter, period has a much less easily defined character, being dominated by alternations of progressive (W'ly or cyclonic) and blocked (anticyclonic) periods in Europe, […]2013, H. H. Lamb, Climate: Present, Past and Future

Questions about forewinters

What is forewinters the plural of?
Forewinters is the plural of forewinter.

Words near forewinters in the dictionary

  1. forewinds
  2. forewing
  3. forewinged
  4. forewings
  5. forewinter
  6. forewinters
  7. forewisdom
  8. forewish
  9. forewished
  10. forewishes
  11. forewishing

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