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In advance of concurrent commonly accepted ideas; showing characteristics of changes yet to be.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
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Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
سَابِق عَصْرِه
(sābiq ʕaṣrih)
— in advance of commonly accepted ideas
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Chinese Mandarin:
先見之明 /先见之明
(xiānjiànzhīmíng)
— in advance of commonly accepted ideas
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Danish:
forud for sin tid
— in advance of commonly accepted ideas
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Dutch:
zijn tijd vooruit
— in advance of commonly accepted ideas
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Dutch:
zijn tijd ver vooruit
— in advance of commonly accepted ideas
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Finnish:
aikaansa edellä
— in advance of commonly accepted ideas
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French:
en avance sur son temps
— in advance of commonly accepted ideas
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German:
seiner Zeit vorraus
— in advance of commonly accepted ideas
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Hebrew:
הִקְדִּים אֶת זְמַנּוֹ
(hiqdím et zmanó)
— in advance of commonly accepted ideas
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Norwegian Bokmål:
forut for sin tid
— in advance of commonly accepted ideas
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
forut for si tid
— in advance of commonly accepted ideas
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Polish:
wyprzedzać swoje czasy
— in advance of commonly accepted ideas
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Portuguese:
à frente de seu tempo
— in advance of commonly accepted ideas
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Spanish:
adelantado a su época
— in advance of commonly accepted ideas
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Swedish:
före sin tid
— in advance of commonly accepted ideas