Definitions for afore

afore a·fore

Spelling: [uh-fawr, uh-fohr]
IPA: /əˈfɔr, əˈfoʊr/

Afore is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 66 anagrams from letters in afore (aefor).

Definitions for afore

adverb, preposition, conjunction

  1. before.

Origin of afore

before 900; late Middle English; Middle English aforne, aforen, Old English on foran. See a-1, fore1

Examples for afore

For there's something waur noo, and has been for some time, than ever was there afore!

You see if I don't, an' afore another night goes over my head!

An' I'm thinkin', Liz,' says I, 'he'll say things no man ever said afore—t' you.'

The very day afore he died, he cut that with his pocket-knife from memory!

Now, yer r'yal 'ighness, wot can I do for you afore you goes ashore?

I hadn't been in the Bible class five minutes afore I guessed how he was carryin' on.

It got 'most dinner time and he had an appetite that he hadn't had afore for months.

Not he—he's no conjuror: many's the dozen tricks I played him afore now.

Never seed nothin' like that afore—no, lads, not in all my life.

I got him to ask me—he'd as much as asked me afore—and then I made him sign that paper.

Word Value for afore
Scrable

8

Words with friends

8

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