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ere

[ air ]

preposition



ere

/ ɛə /

conjunction

  1. a poetic word for before
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ere1

before 900; Middle English; Old English ǣr, ŧ (cognate with German ehr ), comparative of soon, early; cognate with Gothic air. See erst, early
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of ere1

Old English ǣ; related to Old Norse early, Gothic airis earlier, Old High German ŧ earlier, Greek eri early
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“Spears shall be shaken, shields shall be splintered! A sword day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now! Ride now! Ride! Ride for ruin and the world’s ending! Death! Death! Death!”

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"Viewers and listeners ere at the centre of what we do," the regulator said in a statement.

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Able was I ere I saw the quick brown European fox jump over the dim lazy foreign tourist vacationing at Eddy’s Lodge in Elba.

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After the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, agents carried away more than 20 boxes containing 11 sets of classified government records, some of which ere labeled "top secret."

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The head of the city's civil-military administration said local authorities had a plan to cope with an accident and noted some shells ere falling close to the plant's six reactors.

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