Meanings
plural foreparts
- The front or anterior part of something.
I became aware that the two were standing on the shore alongside the forepart of the steamboat, just below my head.
1902, Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness”, in Youth: A Narrative: And Two Other Stories, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and sons, →OCLC, part II, page 1001 more example
The wing being suppos'd placed in the upmost limit, seems to be put so that the plain of it lies almost horizontal, but onely the forepart does dip a little, or is somewhat more deprest […].
1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XXXVIII
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Middle Englishforeparte
- Englishforepart
From Middle English foreparte, forparte, forpart, equivalent to fore- + part. Compare foreparty.
More words from Middle English
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish etuosa
- etuosafront part
German Vorderteil, vorderer Teil
- Vorderteilfront part
- vorderer Teilfront part
- Frontfront part
Cite this entry
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