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foreworld

foreworld noun: a former world, one that is a forerunner of the present world.

Noun

foreworld (plural foreworlds)

  1. A former world, one that is a forerunner of the present world.
    • Rocks have literally come down to us from a foreworld. The youth of the earth is in the soil and in the trees and verdure that springs from it; its age is in the rocks; in the great stone book of the geologic strata its history is written.1916, John Burroughs, Under the Apple-Trees

Forms of foreworld

pluralforeworlds

Origin of foreworld

From fore- + world.

Questions about foreworld

What does foreworld mean?
Foreworld means a former world, one that is a forerunner of the present world.
What part of speech is foreworld?
Foreworld is a noun.
What is the plural of foreworld?
The plural of foreworld is foreworlds.

Words near foreworld in the dictionary

  1. forewomen
  2. foreword
  3. forewords
  4. forework
  5. foreworks
  6. foreworld
  7. foreworlds
  8. foreworn
  9. forewrite
  10. forewrites
  11. forewriting

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