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