fore

1. 1.

   near or toward the bow of a ship or cockpit of a plane

   “the captain went fore (or forward) to check the instruments”

   Synonymsforward

   Antonymsaft

Other forms of fore

plural

fores·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fore

What does fore mean?

fore means "front part of a vessel or aircraft". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fore?

fore has 1 syllable: fore. In IPA it is /ˈfɔɹ/.

What is another word for fore?

Close synonyms include bow, prow, stem, forward. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of fore?

The recorded antonyms are aft, aft.

Is fore a common word?

fore is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with fore?

6 words rhyme with fore. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.