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forestart

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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noun

Meaning 1

A head start.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 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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History

Etymology

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