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Meaning of before

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  before
      adv 1: earlier in time; previously; "I had known her before";
             "as I said before"; "he called me the day before but your
             call had come even earlier"; "her parents had died four
             years earlier"; "I mentioned that problem earlier" [syn:
             {earlier}, {before}]
      2: at or in the front; "I see the lights of a town ahead"; "the
         road ahead is foggy"; "staring straight ahead"; "we couldn't
         see over the heads of the people in front"; "with the cross
         of Jesus marching on before" [syn: {ahead}, {in front},
         {before}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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