Pronunciation
Adverb
beforehand (not comparable)
- At an earlier or preceding time.
- Will it be possible to have access to the room beforehand so that we can set up chairs?
Antonyms
Synonyms
Translations
at an earlier time
- Bulgarian: преди (bg) (predi)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 提前 (cmn) (tíqián), 事先 (cmn) (shìxiān), 先行 (cmn) (xiānxíng), 預先 (cmn), 预先 (cmn) (yùxiān), 頭裡 (cmn), 头里 (cmn) (tóuli)
- Danish: på forhånd (da)
- Dutch: vooraf (nl), op voorhand (nl), van tevoren (nl)
- Esperanto: antaŭe (eo)
- Finnish: etukäteen (fi)
- French: préalablement, à l'avance, auparavant (fr)
- German: vorher (de), zuvor (de), davor (de), im Voraus (de)
- Hebrew: מבעוד מועד (mi'beod mo'ed), מראש (he)
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- Hungarian: előzetesen (hu), előre (hu)
- Japanese: あらかじめ (ja) (arakajime)
- Norwegian: på forhånd, i forkant (no), i forveien (no)
- Polish: uprzednio (pl), wcześniej (pl), zawczasu (pl), z góry (pl)
- Portuguese: de antemão
- Russian: заранее (ru) (zaráneje), заблаговременно (ru) (zablagovrémenno), вперёд (ru) (vperjód), наперёд (ru) (naperjód) (colloquial)
- Scottish Gaelic: ro làimh (gd)
- Spanish: de antemano (es), anticipadamente (es), adelantadamente (es)
- Swedish: på förhand (sv), i förväg (sv)
- Turkish: öncesinde (tr)
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Adjective
beforehand (comparative more beforehand, superlative most beforehand)
- (obsolete) In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.
- Rich and much beforehand. — Francis Bacon.