avant

French

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Definitions
  • beforehand; earlier

Etymology

Inherited from Old French avant (before, front, forward, prior in time) inherited from Latin abante (in front, before), ab (from, of, away from, away, by, off).

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Latin

ab

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from, of, away from, away, by, off

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