Crossword-Solution: FORMER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Former | n. | One who forms; a maker; a creator. |
| Former | n. | A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed. |
| Former | n. | A templet, pattern, or gauge by which an article is shaped. |
| Former | n. | A cutting die. |
| Former | a. | Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past. |
| Former | a. | Near the beginning; preceeding; as, the former part of a discourse or argument. |
| Former | a. | Earlier, as between two things mentioned together; first mentioned. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| FORMER | anagram | REFORM |
We have 51 clues for the answer “FORMER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the first of two or the first mentioned of two | 1 answer |
| FIRST mentioned of two, the | 1 answer |
| First in a pair | 1 answer |
| First mentioned | 1 answer |
| Past; mould | 1 answer |
| Previous, as a club member | 1 answer |
| The first of two | 1 answer |
| The first of two mentioned | 1 answer |
| Word often seen preceding a job title | 1 answer |
| ci-devant | 3 answers |
| Lapsed | 5 answers |
| "One __ time!" | 5 answers |
| Quondam | 8 answers |
| Pre | 9 answers |
| FIRST in the field | 10 answers |
| back number | 10 answers |
| olden | 11 answers |
| whilom | 13 answers |
| Retired | 14 answers |
| Once upon a time | 14 answers |
| No Longer | 16 answers |
| precedent | 16 answers |
| Sometime | 17 answers |
| "Begone!" | 21 answers |
| Elder | 22 answers |
| introductory | 26 answers |
| Pristine | 29 answers |
| prior | 34 answers |
| predecessor | 37 answers |
| Has-been | 37 answers |
| Prehistoric | 37 answers |
| onetime | 40 answers |
| Erstwhile | 47 answers |
| anterior | 48 answers |
| Previous | 49 answers |
| Earlier | 49 answers |
| Foregoing | 50 answers |
| Ex- | 50 answers |
| Passed | 50 answers |
| extinct | 51 answers |
| Historical ___ | 52 answers |
| Once | 56 answers |
| preceding | 59 answers |
| Past | 59 answers |
| Antecedent. | 62 answers |
| Bygone | 62 answers |
| Antique | 68 answers |
| Antiquated | 73 answers |
| Early | 75 answers |
| ANCIENT ___ | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which
covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
OANREC
Hint 3 another clue
COVER THE EYES
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Sentences with FORMER (5)
Farr off from these a slow and silent stream, _Lethe_ the River of Oblivion roules Her watrie Labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
The Aethiop THE PURCHASER of a black servant was persuaded that the color of his skin arose from dirt contracted through the neglect of his former masters.
The former (slaveholder though he was) seemed to possess some regard for honor, some reverence for justice, and some respect for humanity.
JOHNSON and Charles TAYLOR are challenging the Sawyer government's legitimacy while observing a tenuous cease fire; the former president, Gen.
There was room for a little pity, also for a very little exultation: the former at his position, the latter at her own.
Quotes with FORMER (3)
The mind is constituted to accept the god of the more powerful. If you have to choose between the god of the slave owner and the god of the enslaved, naturally you will choose the former . . .
There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness — (if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad as it is, no human body can be happily drunk all the time).
Renewed hope followed renewed effort: It shone like the former for some weeks, then, like it, faded, flickered: Not a line, not a word reached me. When half a year wasted in vain expectancy, my hope died out, and then I felt dark indeed.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1974–2016).