former
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
former1
▶adjective
- 1 having been previously.
■ of or occurring in the past.
- 2 (the former) denoting the first or first-mentioned of two people or things.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
former2
▶noun
- 1 a person or thing that forms something.
- 2 a transverse strengthening part in an aircraft wing or fuselage.
- 3 a frame or core around which an electrical coil can be wound.
- 4 [in combination] Brit. a person in a particular school year: a fifth-former.
'former' also found in these Oxford entries:
Abyssinian
- Acadian
- ack-ack
- ack emma
- ADN
- alienist
- alma mater
- alumnus
- angel
- Angevin
- anna
- antique
- Armagnac
- as
- aschelminth
- ascomycete
- ayah
- Ayrshire
- azalea
- azidothymidine
- baker
- Barbary ape
- barbershop
- barleycorn
- barnacle goose
- basidiomycete
- bawbee
- BH
- bilharzia
- bleed
- Boxing Day
- boyar
- break
- brevet
- broker-dealer
- brontosaurus
- bundle
- butterfly
- candytuft
- cape
- capsid
- case law
- centesimo
- CERN
- Chinese gooseberry
- ci-devant
- citation
- CL
- coccidia
- comedo
