Adverb

(en adverb)

in the air; in the sky

high winds aloft

above, overhead, in a high place; up

* 1883 , :

Someone's turned the chest out alow and aloft .

* 1954 , :

He noticed that he still held the knife aloft and brought his arm down, replacing the blade in the sheath.

(nautical) in the top, at the masthead, or on the higher yards or rigging.

* 1859 , , The Red Rover: A Tale :

I think you said something concerning the manner in which yonder ship has anchored, and of the condition they keep things alow and aloft ?

Adverb

(-)

In or to the front; in advance; onward.

The island bore but a little ahead of us. --Fielding.

Having progressed more.

He is far ahead of his class in math.

In the direction one is facing or moving.

Just ahead you can see the cliffs.

in the future, preceding

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, first = Ed , last = Pilkington , title = Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die? , newspaper = The Guardian , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/21/death-penalty-trial-reggie-clemons?newsfeed=true , page = , passage = The Reggie Clemons case has been a cause of legal dispute for the past two decades. Prosecutors alleged that he and his co-defendants brutally cut short the lives of Julie and Robin Kerry, sisters who had just started college and had their whole adult lives ahead of them. }}