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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One that forms; a maker or creator: a former of ideas.
  • n. A member of a school form: a fifth former.
  • adj. Occurring earlier in time.
  • adj. Of, relating to, or taking place in the past.
  • adj. Coming before in place or order; foregoing.
  • adj. Being the first of two mentioned.
  • adj. Having been in the past: a former ambassador.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. previous
  • adj. first of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun.
  • n. Someone who forms something.
  • n. An object used to form something.
  • n. Someone in, or of, a certain form (class).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One who forms; a maker; a creator.
  • n.
  • n. A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed.
  • n. A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped.
  • n. A cutting die.
  • adj. Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past.
  • adj. Near the beginning; preceeding.
  • adj. Earlier, as between two things mentioned together; first mentioned.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Being before in place; fore; first; foremost.
  • Being or happening before in time; preceding another or something else in order of time; prior.
  • Past; especially, long past; ancient.
  • Preceding or going before in a series; antecedent in order of thought, of action, etc.: specifically applied to the antecedent one of two things, or of two parts or divisions of anything.
  • Bygone.
  • n. A predecessor.
  • n. One who forms, fashions, creates, or makes; a creator.
  • n. Specifically, a pattern in or upon which anything is shaped, as a piece of wood used for shaping cartridges and gun-wads; any mechanism contributing to give shape to an article in process of manufacture.
  • n. One of a number of appliances and machines used in bending and shaping sheet-metal into tubes, cylinders, boxes, and other forms.
  • n. The templet used for the cutting of gear-teeth; the guide used for giving desired motion to the cutter when forming or cutting irregularly shaped pieces in a profiling-machine.
  • n. In electricity, a frame upon which the coils of certain types of armatures and transformers are wound.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the first of two or the first mentioned of two
  • adj. (used especially of persons) of the immediate past
  • adj. belonging to the distant past
  • adj. referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several)
  • adj. belonging to some prior time
  • Equivalent
    past   
    Antonym
    subsequent   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    number one    first   
    Form
    pan former   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    maker    creator    antecedent    anterior    previous    preceding    foregoing    prior    earlier    preceeding   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    dormer    informer    performer    reformer    stormer    transformer    warmer   
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    Sports    Celebrity   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    new    local    noble