forestart

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noun

A head start.

Scrabble 12

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nounforestart (plural forestarts)

plural forestarts

  1. A head start.
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    c. 1726, Patrick Walker, quoting Alexander Peden in "Remarkable Passages in the Life and Death of Mr. Alexander Peden", Biographia Presbyteriana John, you and I will be both in heaven shortly; but though you be much older than I, my soul will get the forestart of yours, for I will be first in heaven, but your body will have the advantage of mine, for ye will get rest in your grave until the resurrection, and die there; […]

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From fore- + start. Compare German Vorsprung (“headstart”).

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

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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “forestart,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forestart.

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