former
Meaning of former
adjective
- Previous.
A former president; the former East Germany
- First of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun.
I drive two vehicles, a Chevy Camaro and an AMC Gremlin. I won the former on a game show.
- Someone who forms something; a maker; a creator or founder.
Dave was the former of the company.
- An object used to form something, such as a template, gauge, or cutting die.
The brick arch was built using a wooden former.
- (used in combinations) Someone in, or of, a certain form (class).
Fifth-former.
Information about former
- The plural form of former is: formers.
- Languages in which former is used:
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CatalanHyphenation of former
for-mer
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- former is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
former synonyms
Meaning erstwhile:
erstwhile, old, onetime, quondam, sometime
Meaning late:
Meaning early:
Meaning :
former antonyms
Meaning :
Translation of former
- French: premier, précédent, antérieur
- Spanish: primero, primera, primer, precedente, previo, anterior, previa
- German: erstere, ersterer, ersteres, vorherig
- Portuguese: anterior
- Italian: precedente
Anagrams of former
Words that rhyme with former
Farmer, armer, bedwarmer, benchwarmer, chairwarmer, charmer, dirtfarmer, disarmer, dryfarmer, farmer, footwarmer, forewarmer, harmer, housewarmer, legwarmer, nonfarmer, profarmer, sharefarmer, strongarmer, swarmer, underfarmer, warmer, Biermer, Hermer, Stoermer, Wermer, Woermer, termer, Schirmer, affirmer, confirmer, firmer, infirmer, reaffirmer, squirmer, Reformer, Stormer, antireformer, archinformer, autotransformer, barnstormer, brainstormer, chloroformer, conformer, counterreformer, deformer, dewormer, dormer, hookwormer, hydroformer
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