ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Foregroup

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Foregroup is a noun meaning A previous or prior grouping or assemblage.

Meaning

A previous or prior grouping or assemblage.

More Meanings

  1. A group positioned in the fore or out front.

Example Sentences

The most striking personage in the foregroup of visitors was one who had taken off his hat and disclosed a forehead of supernatural height, though of extreme narrowness, reminding one somewhat of the chimney of a parafiin lamp; […]
Sometimes the former were composed into a foregroup while the latter were consigned to the background; at other times the holy people were placed in a raised or semi-celestial station, the evil ones were "terrestrialized" in a lower station.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include antecedent, ancestor, forerunner, antecessor, precessor, antecursor.

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