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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The first or early part of a period of time.
  • noun The anterior part, as of an object or organism.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The fore, front, or forward part.

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  • noun The front or anterior part of something

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the side that is forward or prominent

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Examples

  • Beneath the forepart is the _cerebrum_, and beneath the hinder part is the

    The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love Emanuel Swedenborg 1730

  • The shell made its ten - tacled forepart seem less alien.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • She had the forepart of a remarkably full-figured woman, and the rear-part of a beautiful horse.

    Labor Policy John Dermot Woods 2010

  • It lifted its forepart, let its rearpart drop, blasted with its elevation jets, and spun out of control.

    Here There Are Monsters 2010

  • Pocock (1933), for example, described it as 'Uniformly blackish brown above and on the limbs and tail; with a grey patch above the eye and grey on the upper half of the cheeks; the sides of the muzzle, back of the ears, chin, and forepart of the throat white, but the hinder part of the throat, the breast, and the belly either a dusky greyish brown, or clean white'.

    That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel! Darren Naish 2007

  • It was more natural two hands than one, the left hand under the forepart to steady and point.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • It was more natural two hands than one, the left hand under the forepart to steady and point.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmovable, but the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.

    The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations 2008

  • It was more natural two hands than one, the left hand under the forepart to steady and point.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

  • They would charge full in face, and presenting their own massive and solid beaks would stave in the hollow and weak forepart of their enemies 'ships; 40 while the Athenians, confined as they were, would not be able to wheel round them or break their line before striking, to which manoeuvres they mainly trusted -- the want of room would make the one impossible, and the

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

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