English Explanatory Dictionary

foregain

English dictionary entry

Meanings

prep
  1. Directly opposite to; in the opposite scale to.

Word forms

foregain

Etymology

From Middle English *foregayn, *foreȝein, *foreȝeȝn, foregane, from Old English foran ongean (“opposite”), equivalent to fore- + gain. Compare German vorentgegen.

Related words

foregainst
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