foreflight

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noun

A flight made before the expected time; a previous or prior flight

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Meanings

nounforeflight (plural foreflights)

plural foreflights · alternative fore-flight

  1. A flight made before the expected time; a previous or prior flight

    No speed that would not lag behind the fore-flight of a heart's desire.

    2015, George Gissing, A Life's Morning
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    Let winter be less sharp In that the heats of purpose Have winter foreflight in their wings, [...]

    1938, Laura (Riding) Jackson, Collected Poems

    Yesterday Moscow, to-morrow what nation, are only the foreflights, Straws playing arrow in the storm-van, storm is good, storm is good, good creature, [...]

    1988, Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt, The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers

Origin

From fore- + flight.

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APA

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MLA

“foreflight.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foreflight. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

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