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pre-
1- a prefix occurring originally in loanwords from Latin, where it meant “before” ( preclude; prevent ); applied freely as a prefix, with the meanings “prior to,” “in advance of,” “early,” “beforehand,” “before,” “in front of,” and with other figurative meanings ( preschool; prewar; prepay; preoral; prefrontal ).
P.R.E.
2abbreviation for
- Petroleum Refining Engineer.
pre-
prefix
- before in time, rank, order, position, etc
pre-eminent
prefrontal
premeditation
preschool
predate
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of pre-1
Example Sentences
He has picked pre-primary brawls with Christie, Perry, and Marco Rubio.
At that time, pre -9/11, the links were more subtle and had to be hunted down.
While in pre-trial detention, Krivov undertook two hunger strikes.
At his year-end, pre-Hawaii press conference, we caught a rare glimpse of peak Obama.
Instead, the military commission proceedings are bogged down in a pre-trial phase, as it has been for the past three years.
The Spaniards, indeed, feigned to regard them only as a remnant of the rebels who had joined the pre-existing brigand bands.
Doubtless the commentator habit is fixed in the nature of man; but it was pre-eminently mediaeval.
From pre-natal days I was destined for the railway service, as an oyster to its shell.
Dr. Wilson says, in the statistical accounts of Scotland, many of which are suggestive of a pre-Raleigh period.
Offered to Him that liveth for ever and ever, it celebrates his eternal pre-existence and existence to eternal ages.
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