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lain ahead

lain ahead is the past participle of lie ahead.

Meaning of lie ahead

Verb

lie ahead (third-person singular simple present lies ahead, present participle lying ahead, simple past lay ahead, past participle lain ahead)

  1. (intransitive) To be going to happen in the future; to be in store.
    • Our best days lie ahead.

Questions about lain ahead

What is lain ahead the past participle of?
Lain ahead is the past participle of lie ahead.

Words near lain ahead in the dictionary

  1. Lails
  2. laimosphere
  3. laimospheres
  4. lain
  5. lain above
  6. lain ahead
  7. lain along
  8. lain around
  9. lain at someone's door
  10. lain at someone's heart
  11. lain back

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lain ahead (page history and authors); lie ahead (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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