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foreworlds

foreworlds is the plural of foreworld.

Meaning of foreworld

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

Questions about foreworlds

What is foreworlds the plural of?
Foreworlds is the plural of foreworld.

Words near foreworlds in the dictionary

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

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