Meanings
plural forestarts
- 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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Origin
From fore- + start. Compare German Vorsprung (“headstart”).
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forestart. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forestart
“forestart.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/forestart. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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