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forerank en · NOUN

Etymology

From fore- + rank.

Meanings

1. The first rank; the front row.
   • the forerank launched their spears, which Conor easily avoided. 2018, Stephen R. Lawhead, In the Region of the Summer Stars:
   • He was in the forerank of a crowd that gathered when Burke, a surfman, plunged from the east pier and dragged out a drowning boy 1925, Harold Titus, Age:

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