Home › Words › F › foreliveforeliveforelive means to live or come before; precede.EtymologyFrom fore- + live.verbTo live or come before; precedee.g.“[…] Or if I seek the visitation, then He fills me, and my foul is carried on, And then do I forelive the race of men, So that the things that will be, are to me […]” — 1806, The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.forelife 70% match — A former or previous life vs forelive →prelive 68% match — To live in advance; to experience precognitively. vs forelive →forelove 67% match — To love beforehand or in advance. vs forelive →predecess 64% match — To precede; to come before. vs forelive →forebelieve 62% match — To believe beforehand; believe in advance. vs forelive →toforetime 62% match — Previously, beforehand. vs forelive →beforelife 62% match — An existence before the beginning of life. vs forelive →preexist 62% match — To exist before something else. vs forelive →