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former

1. [söz] öňki [Umumy]

2. [söz] hemişe [Umumy]

Webster's English Dictionary

former

n. 1. One who forms; a maker; a creator. ()

2. (Mech.) A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed. ()

a. [A compar. due to OE. formest. See Foremost.]1. Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past. ()

For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age. (Job. viii. 8.)

The latter and former rain. (Hosea vi. 3.)

3. Near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument. ()

3. Earlier, as between two things mentioned together; first mentioned. ()

A bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic; a man may be the former merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment; but he can not be latter without both that and an ill temper. (Pope.)

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