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

  • preposition Previous to; before.
  • conjunction Rather than; before.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Early; soon.
  • Before; formerly.
  • Before, in respect of time.
  • Before; sooner than.
  • noun An obsolete form of ear.
  • An obsolete form of ear.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To plow. [Obs.] See ear, v. t.
  • preposition Archaic or Poetic Before; sooner than.
  • preposition Rather than.
  • preposition before, shortly.
  • preposition formerly, heretofore.
  • preposition Same as Ere.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Obsolete form of ear..
  • preposition poetic, archaic Before; sooner than.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English er, from Old English ǣr; see ayer- in Indo-European roots.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English ere, from Old English ǣr. (adverb, conjunction, & preposition), from Proto-Germanic *airiz comparative of Proto-Germanic *airi (“early”), from Proto-Indo-European *áyeri (“day, morning”) (compare Avestan 𐬀𐬫𐬀𐬭 (ayar, "day"), Gk. ἠέριος (ēérios, "at daybreak"), see also era). The adverb erstwhile retains the Old English superlative ǣrest ("earliest").

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