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lay ahead

lay ahead is the simple past 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 lay ahead

What is lay ahead the simple past of?
Lay ahead is the simple past of lie ahead.

Words near lay ahead in the dictionary

  1. lay a hand on
  2. lay a trip on
  3. lay a venue
  4. lay about
  5. lay above
  6. lay ahead
  7. lay along
  8. lay an anchor to the windward
  9. lay an egg
  10. lay analysis
  11. lay around

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lay 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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