afore

[uh-fawr, uh-fohr] /əˈfɔr, əˈfoʊr/
adverb, preposition, conjunction, Older Use.
1.
before.
Origin
before 900; late Middle English; Middle English aforne, aforen, Old English on foran. See a-1, fore1
Examples from the web for afore
  • Germans use to make money afore spending it and have our admiration for it.
  • After background subtraction, pixels in the resulting frame produce afore ground mask of moving pixels.
British Dictionary definitions for afore

afore

/əˈfɔː/
adverb, preposition, conjunction
1.
an archaic or dialect word for before
Word Origin and History for afore
adv.

Old English onforan "before, at the beginning of, in front of," from phrase on foran, from on (prep.) + foran (adv.) "in front," dative of for.

In some cases probably it represents Old English ætforan "at-fore." Once the literary equivalent of before, now it has mostly been replaced by that word except in nautical use and in combinations such as aforesaid and aforethought.