Fere vs Fore - What's the difference?
fere | fore |
A companion, comrade or friend.
*1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book V:
*:they swange oute their swerdis and slowe of noble men of armys mo than an hondred – and than they rode ayen to theire ferys .
(label) A spouse; an animal's mate.
*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:And Cambel took Cambrina to his fere .
*1830 , , ‘
*:The lamb rejoiceth in the year, / And raceth freely with his fere , / And answers to his mother’s calls / From the flower’d furrow.
(obsolete) Former; occurring earlier (in some order); previous.
Forward; situated towards the front (of something).
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 23:
(golf) An exclamation yelled to inform players a ball is moving in their direction.
The front; the forward part of something; the foreground.
* 2002 , Mark Bevir, The Logic of the History of Ideas :
In the part that precedes or goes first; opposed to aft, after, back, behind, etc.
(obsolete) Formerly; previously; afore.
* Shakespeare
(nautical) In or towards the bows of a ship.
(fare)
As nouns the difference between fere and fore
is that fere is a companion, comrade or friend while fore is forest .As an adjective fere
is (obsolete) fierce.fere
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) (Northumbrian) ).Alternative forms
* pheerNoun
(en noun)Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind’:
Derived terms
* (l)Etymology 2
Compare (etyl) (lena) .Anagrams
* free * reef ----fore
English
Etymology 1
A development of the prefix .Adjective
- the fore part of the day
- the fore end of a wagon
- Crystal vases with crimson roses and golden-brown asters were set here and there in the fore part of the shop [...].
Antonyms
* (order) latter * (location) aftInterjection
(en interjection)Noun
(-)- The fore was painted white.
- People face a dilemma whenever they bring to the fore an understanding that appears inadequate in the light of the other beliefs they bring to bear on it.
Adverb
(-)- The eyes, fore duteous, now converted are.