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Language: Old English
Origin: fore 'before, previously'

fore-

 prefix
     
fore-
1 before:
The enemy had been forewarned.

➔ forewarned is forearmed

at forewarn (2)
2 placed at the front:
her forenames
a horse's forelegs
3 the front part of something:
his forehead
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Advanced Learner's Dictionary.

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