Noun: forestart
| Singular | forestart |
| Plural | forestarts |
Sample Sentences
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c. 1726, Patrick Walker, quoting Alexander Peden in "Remarkable Passages in the Life and Death of Mr. Alexander Peden", Biographia Presbyteriana
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John, you and I will be both in heaven shortly; but though you be much older than I, my soul will get the forestart of yours, for I will be first in heaven, but your body will have the advantage of mine, for ye will get rest in your grave until the resurrection, and die there; […]
Nouns inflected like forestart
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From fore- + start. Compare German Vorsprung (“headstart”). See: German Nouns '
Vorsprung'.