Meaning & use
ere
An old-fashioned or literary word meaning before, used mainly in poetry and archaic speech.
See it in a sentence
The knight vowed to return home ere the winter snows arrived.
Poets once wrote ere long to mean that something would happen soon.
A note on using this word
Ere is rarely used in modern English outside poetry, hymns, or deliberately archaic or literary writing.
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