preposition

• Before.

  ‘he died the day afore yesterday’

  More example sentences

  • ‘A human being's evident fear is that he should die afore his time.’
  • ‘Rebecca, did the dinosaurs come afore man, or at the same time?’
  • ‘It's all been done before by Nature or those who came afore.’
  • ‘Shouldn't be long afore we find out who she is.’
  • ‘The stream is murky and my eyes are not so keen as they were ages afore.’