Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for Before
before, adv. [OE 'in front'.] (webplay: choice, choose, distance, face, further, noting, persons, possess, time).
- Already.
- Previous; earlier; preceding this time.
- Previously; in advance; in the past; in a former epoch.
- Ahead; following; succeeding; in front; coming after; next in line; in the future.
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