Word Meanings - AHEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In or to the front; in advance; onward. The island bore but a little ahead of us. Fielding. 2. Headlong; without restraint. L'Estrange. To go ahead. To go in advance. To go on onward. To push on in an enterprise. -- To get ahead of.

Additional info about word: AHEAD

1. In or to the front; in advance; onward. The island bore but a little ahead of us. Fielding. 2. Headlong; without restraint. L'Estrange. To go ahead. To go in advance. To go on onward. To push on in an enterprise. -- To get ahead of. To get in advance of. To surpass; to get the better of.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AHEAD)

• Afore
• Precedent
• antecedent
• foregoing
• ahead
• afront
• before
• beyond
• sooner
• Apace
• Rapidly
• fast
• astride
• eagerly
• expeditiously
• speedily
• Onward
• Forward
• in advance

Related words: (words related to AHEAD)

• AFOREHAND
  Beforehand; in anticipation. She is come aforehand to anoint my body. Mark xiv. 8.
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• ANTECEDENT
  1. Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause. 2. Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability. Syn. -- Prior; previous; foregoing.
• BEYOND
  1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or
• FOREGO
  1. To quit; to relinquish; to leave. Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. Herbert. 2. To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach,
• ADVANCE
  supposed LL. abantiare; ab + ante before. The spelling 1. To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on. 2. To raise; to elevate. They . . . advanced their eyelids. Shak. 3. To raise to a higher rank; to promote. Ahasueres
• FORWARDLY
  Eagerly; hastily; obtrusively.
• RAPIDLY
  In a rapid manner.
• ADVANCED
  1. In the van or front. 2. In the front or before others, as regards progress or ideas; as, advanced opinions, advanced thinkers. 3. Far on in life or time. A gentleman advanced in years, with a hard experience written in his wrinkles. Hawthorne.
• PRECEDENTED
  Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole.
• ASTRIDE
  With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle. Placed astride upon the bars of the palisade. Sir W. Scott. Glasses with horn bows sat astride on his nose. Longfellow.
• AFORE
  In the fore part of a vessel. (more info) 1. Before. If he have never drunk wine afore. Shak.
• FORWARD
  An agreement; a covenant; a promise. Tell us a tale anon, as forward is. Chaucer.
• ONWARDS
  Onward.
• FORWARDNESS
  The quality of being forward; cheerful readiness; promtness; as, the forwardness of Christians in propagating the gospel. 2. An advanced stage of progress or of preparation; advancement; as, his measures were in great forwardness. Robertson. 3.
• AHEAD
  1. In or to the front; in advance; onward. The island bore but a little ahead of us. Fielding. 2. Headlong; without restraint. L'Estrange. To go ahead. To go in advance. To go on onward. To push on in an enterprise. -- To get ahead of.
• FOREGOER
  1. One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor. 2. A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household.
• ANTECEDENTLY
  Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. Barrow.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• CARAPACE
  The thick shell or sheild which cover the back of the tortoise, or turtle, the crab, and other crustaceous animals.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• OVERFORWARD
  Forward to excess; too forward. -- O"ver*for"ward*ness, n.
• STRAIGHTFORWARD
  Proceeding in a straight course or manner; not deviating; honest; frank. -- adv.