• (RP) IPA: /fɔː/
• (America) IPA: /fɔɹ/
• (rhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /fo(ː)ɹ/
• (nonrhotic, horse-hoarse) IPA: /foə/

fore (comparative former, superlative foremost)

1. (obsolete) Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous. [15th-18th c.]

   the fore part of the day

2. Forward; situated towards the front (of something). [from 16th c.]

   the fore end of a wagon

   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 23:

     Crystal vases with crimson roses and golden-brown asters were set here and there in the fore part of the shop […]

• (order) latter
• (location) aft

• Russian: ра́нний

• Russian: пере́дний

1. (golf) An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.

fore (uncountable)

1. The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.

   The fore was painted white.

   • 2002, Mark Bevir, The Logic of the History of Ideas:

     People face a dilemma whenever they bring to the fore an understanding that appears inadequate in the light of the other beliefs they bring to bear on it.

• fore-and-aft
• foremost
• forehead

• Russian: нос

fore (not comparable)

1. In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
2. (obsolete) Formerly; previously; afore.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 7”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634 ↗:

     The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are.

3. (nautical) In or towards the bows of a ship.

1. (archaic) simple past tense of fare

1. A people of Papua New Guinea.

1. Their language.

1. Surname