Forewinter
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Forewinter is a noun meaning The period immediately preceding or leading up to winter.
Meaning
The period immediately preceding or leading up to winter.
More Meanings
- The early part of winter.
Example Sentences
The Early Winter, or Forewinter, period has a much less easily defined character, being dominated by alternations of progressive (W'ly or cyclonic) and blocked (anticyclonic) periods in Europe, […]
Anybody seeing him all that forewinter long going about the sadder verges of the city might have rightly wondered what his trade was, this refugee reprieved from the river and its fishes. Haunting the streets in a castoff peacoat.
Word Forms
- forewinters
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include forespring, wintertime, midwinter, foresummer, winter, predawn.
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