foreworld

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noun

A former world, one that is a forerunner of the present world.

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Meanings

nounforeworld (plural foreworlds)

plural foreworlds

  1. A former world, one that is a forerunner of the present world.

    Rocks have literally come down to us from a foreworld. The youth of the earth is in the soil and in the trees and verdure that springs from it; its age is in the rocks; in the great stone book of the geologic strata its history is written.

    1916, John Burroughs, Under the Apple-Trees

Origin

From fore- + world.

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APA

foreworld. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foreworld

MLA

“foreworld.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foreworld. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “foreworld,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/foreworld.

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