Crossword-Solution: ERSTWHILE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Erstwhile | adv. | Till then or now; heretofore; formerly. |
We have 54 clues for the answer “ERSTWHILE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Of a former time | 1 answer |
| Former, in archaic style | 1 answer |
| Of times past | 2 answers |
| Former former? | 2 answers |
| erst | 3 answers |
| "One __ time!" | 5 answers |
| Quondam | 8 answers |
| whilom | 13 answers |
| Once upon a time | 14 answers |
| Sometime | 17 answers |
| Primordial ___ | 20 answers |
| prior | 34 answers |
| occurring previously | 36 answers |
| Greater than | 38 answers |
| in front of | 38 answers |
| headmost | 38 answers |
| sooner | 39 answers |
| onetime | 40 answers |
| Prior to | 41 answers |
| initially | 42 answers |
| Heretofore | 42 answers |
| Former | 42 answers |
| Ere | 43 answers |
| Previously | 44 answers |
| Formerly | 44 answers |
| premature | 45 answers |
| Untimely? | 47 answers |
| anterior | 48 answers |
| Previous | 49 answers |
| preliminary | 49 answers |
| Already | 49 answers |
| Earlier | 49 answers |
| fore | 50 answers |
| in advance | 50 answers |
| Ex- | 50 answers |
| Foregoing | 50 answers |
| Inaugural | 50 answers |
| beforehand | 51 answers |
| AHEAD OF ___ | 53 answers |
| Once | 56 answers |
| BEFORE ___ | 57 answers |
| Exceeding | 58 answers |
| preceding | 59 answers |
| Past | 59 answers |
| Surpassing. | 61 answers |
| Bygone | 62 answers |
| unwarranted | 63 answers |
| Initial | 65 answers |
| Inopportune | 67 answers |
| Antique | 68 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETARE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ERSTWHILE (5)
Sally was holding the candles by the opposite door, which led to the bedrooms upstairs, and the Comtesse was in the act of beating a hasty retreat before that enemy who owned such a sweet musical voice; Suzanne reluctantly was preparing to follow her mother, whilst casting regretful glances towards the door, where she hoped still to see her dearly-beloved, erstwhile school-fellow.
All during the interview Carthoris watched, catlike, for some indication that Vas Kor recognized in the battered panthan the erstwhile gorgeous Prince of Helium; but the sleepless nights, the long days of marching and fighting, the wounds and the dried blood had evidently sufficed to obliterate the last remnant of his likeness to his former self; and then Vas Kor had seen him but twice in all his life.
With the instant that Tarzan realized the native’s danger his attitude toward his erstwhile prey altered completely—now he was a fellow man threatened by a common enemy.
Gust, that he might the better observe, clambered into the branches of a tree to the rear of them, being careful that the leafy fronds hid him from the view of his erstwhile mates.
Quickly, the Belgian leaped over the prostrate form of his erstwhile host, and without a thought of succor for the man in whom, for aught he knew, life still remained, he bolted for the passageway and safety.
Quotes with ERSTWHILE (3)
Vaughn folded his arms. ‘The reason why you’ve lasted longer than most of your erstwhile colleagues is because you don’t do drama. I don’t like drama. I get enough drama at home. My wife could teach the RSC a few things about drama.'For someone who claimed that he didn’t do drama, Vaughn was one of the biggest drama queens she knew.
As I came down the stairs, all attention turned from the girls, and everyone looked to me as though this were some sort of drama taking place on a stage, and I was the scorned lover come to confront my erstwhile beloved. I was not. I was just a whore, nothing else. Nothing more.
Next door but one is Quinlan Broddle, a Viceroy with a fear of gardens. So much so that he sold his garden to Virgin Atlantic and his erstwhile front lawn is now a runway where miniature helicopters and packets of crisps undertake sorties to 1940’s Dresden where they have made several dozen unsuccessful attempts to rescue the Quaker Oats man, who is being held captive by the SS on the basis that his hair looks like ice cream.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2001–2023).