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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. adj. Located at or toward the front; forward.
2. adj. Earlier in order of occurrence; former.
3. n. Something that is located at or toward the front.
4. n. The front part.
5. adv. At, toward, or near the front; forward.
6. adv. At an earlier time.
7. prep. Before.
8. interj. Sports Used by a golfer to warn those ahead that a ball is headed in their direction.
9. idiom. to the fore In, into, or toward a position of prominence: A new virtuoso has come to the fore.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. Before (in place); in presence of.
2. Before (in place); in the part that precedes or goes first; specifically, nautical, toward or in the parts of a ship that lie near the bows; forward: opposed to aft.
3. Before (in time); previously.
4. Before.
5. Situated at the fore or front; front; forward; anterior; prior; former; being, coming, or going before or in front in place, or earlier in time: as, the fore legs of a horse; the fore wheels of a wagon; the fore part of the day.
6. n. The front: in the phrases at and to the fore (see below).
7. n. Nautical, the foremast.
8. n. At or in the front.
9. n. An obsolete preterit and past participle of fare.
10. n. Way; course; manner of proceeding.
11. n. A prefix, equivalent to before (in place or time): before nouns often written separately and regarded as an adjective (see fore, adjective). Fore (fore, adverb or adjective) is much used in the formation of compounds, most of them modern and of obvious origin. Such modern compounds are, in this dictionary, usually left without etymological note. In nautical usage fore as a prefix notes relation to the foremast, as distinguished from the mainmast and mizzenmast: as, foresail; fore top.
12. n. An erroneous form of for- in some words, as in forego, forespend, forespeak, etc., for forgo, forspend, forspeak, etc., being obsolete in all but forego.
13. n. An erroneous form of for-, as in foreclose.
14. In golf, a warning cry (‘look out, before!’) uttered to attract the attention of a person who is liable to be struck by the ball.

Wiktionary

1. interj. golf An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.
2. n. The front; the foreward part of something; the foreground.
3. v. Simple past of fare.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete Journey; way; method of proceeding.
2. adv. In the part that precedes or goes first; -- opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
3. adv. Obs. or Colloq. Formerly; previously; afore.
4. adv. (Naut.) In or towards the bows of a ship.
5. adj. Advanced, as compared with something else; toward the front; being or coming first, in time, place, order, or importance; preceding; anterior; antecedent; earlier; forward; -- opposed to back or behind
6. n. The front; hence, that which is in front; the future.
7. prep. obsolete Before; -- sometimes written 'fore as if a contraction of afore or before.

WordNet 3.0

1. adj. situated at or toward the bow of a vessel
2. n. front part of a vessel or aircraft
3. adv. near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane