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What (who) is Before - definition


Before         
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Before (disambiguation); Before (album); Before (EP)
·adv In advance.
II. Before ·adv Earlier; sooner than; until then.
III. Before ·adv In time past; previously; already.
IV. Before ·prep Under the cognizance or jurisdiction of.
V. Before ·prep Open for; free of access to; in the power of.
VI. Before ·prep An advance of; farther onward, in place or time.
VII. Before ·prep In presence or sight of; face to face with; facing.
VIII. Before ·prep Prior or preceding in dignity, order, rank, right, or worth; rather than.
IX. Before ·adv On the fore part; in front, or in the direction of the front;
- opposed to in the rear.
X. Before ·prep In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house.
XI. Before ·prep Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when;
- sometimes with the additional idea of purpose; in order that.
before         
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Before (disambiguation); Before (album); Before (EP)
I. prep.
1.
Preceding, in advance of, ahead of, in front of, in the van of.
2.
Prior to, previous to.
3.
In the presence of, face to face with, in the sight of.
4.
Near the front of, in front of.
5.
Under the jurisdiction, judgment, control, or notice of.
II. ad.
1.
Toward the front.
2.
In advance, farther onward, ahead.
3.
Formerly, in time past, of old, already, previously.
4.
Hitherto, up to that time.
5.
Above, in a former part, in a previous place or passage.
before         
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Before (disambiguation); Before (album); Before (EP)
¦ preposition, conjunction, & adverb
1. during the period of time preceding.
2. in front of.
in front of and required to answer to (a court of law, tribunal, or other authority).
3. in preference to; with a higher priority than.
Origin
OE beforan (see by, fore), of Gmc origin.

Wikipedia

Before
Before is the opposite of after, and may refer to:
Examples of use of Before
1. In Africa, it may well be before independence, before the civil war, before oil.
2. It is an Afghanistan of a grander era, before the Soviets, before the mujaheddin, before the Taliban, before U.S. soldiers came looking for Osama bin Laden.
3. Even before being racked by 30 years of war, most of Afghanistan was stuck in a different time, before electricity, before TV, before tractors.
4. Or before they 50 percent displace technologies that came before.
5. The case has been before the Supreme Court before.