ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Therebefore

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Therebefore is an adverb meaning Before that time.

Meaning

Before that time.

More Meanings

  1. Before that (the thing aforementioned).

Example Sentences

Now with the train of her handmaids paced to the minster the Queen— But lo, cometh Kriemhild the lovely, a very glory-sheen, With maidens three-and-forty, which had fared with her unto Rhine: In loveliest loomwork, woven in Araby, did they shine. So royally swept the maidens up to the minster-door; And for her the vassals of Siegfried were waiting therebefore.
[Claim—] 4. In [an] apparatus of the character described, in combination, a plurality of pairs of stretching rollers each of which rotates at a higher peripheral speed than the pair before, and a coiling device in series therewith, said coiling device including a roller operating upon the belt driven at a peripheral speed of not less than that of the stretching roller immediately therebefore.

Word Forms

Antonyms for therebefore

Common opposites include thereafter.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include precedently, beforehand, herebefore, before-hand, toforetime, earlier.

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