Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To hear or be informed of before.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb To hear beforehand.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb archaic To hear beforehand

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Examples

  • I forehear the falling of tears that cease not, and in generations unborn the sorrow of it all that will never be stilled!

    Imaginations and Reveries George William Russell 1901

  • And I have to say that if we all looked as much like a hairy ape as he did with his full beard and forehear, then maybe he was right afterall. pretty interesting stuff none the less.

    Drudge Retort 2009

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