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Ahead   /əhˈɛd/   Listen
Ahead

adverb
1.
At or in the front.  Synonyms: before, in front.  "The road ahead is foggy" , "Staring straight ahead" , "We couldn't see over the heads of the people in front" , "With the cross of Jesus marching on before"
2.
Toward the future; forward in time.  Synonym: forward.  "I look forward to seeing you"
3.
In a forward direction.  Synonyms: forrader, forward, forwards, onward, onwards.  "The train moved ahead slowly" , "The boat lurched ahead" , "Moved onward into the forest" , "They went slowly forward in the mud"
4.
Ahead of time; in anticipation.  Synonyms: beforehand, in advance.  "We like to plan ahead" , "Should have made reservations beforehand"
5.
To a more advanced or advantageous position.  "Pushing talented students ahead"
6.
To a different or a more advanced time (meaning advanced either toward the present or toward the future).  "Pushed the deadline ahead from Tuesday to Wednesday"
7.
Leading or ahead in a competition.  Synonyms: in the lead, out front.  "Ahead by two pawns" , "Our candidate is in the lead in the polls" , "Way out front in the race" , "The advertising campaign put them out front in sales"
adjective
1.
Having the leading position or higher score in a contest.  Synonyms: in the lead, leading.  "The leading team in the pennant race"



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"Ahead" Quotes from Famous Books



... the same in this international struggle for world supremacy, the only nations willing to stop fighting will be the ones that are far ahead of the game, like Great Britain, Russia and ...
— The Conquest of America - A Romance of Disaster and Victory • Cleveland Moffett
... the port, twenty thousand miles ahead. The steward leaned over Wilbur Murphy's shoulder and pointed a long brown finger. "It was right out there, ...
— Sjambak • John Holbrook Vance
... at him, and, really liking the fellow, was about to explain the real facts to him, when a client came in. So he only said, "If that's so, go ahead. Locate on Broadway, anywhere between the Battery and Canal Street." Later in the day, when he had time, he shook his head, and said, "Poor devil! ...
— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford
... Crawshay did not think a new licence would be necessary I have no doubt that you can go ahead with your plan of opening the new St. Agnes' on Easter Sunday. At the same time I cannot help feeling that a new licence would be desirable and I am asking Canon Whymper as Rural Dean to pay a visit and make the necessary report. I have heard much of your work, ...
— The Altar Steps • Compton MacKenzie
... minutes he was almost strangling and the thing was half a mile ahead of him. In ten, he was exhausted, and the shrieking noise it made as it waddled away was distinctly fainter. In fifteen minutes he only heard its hooting scream between the harsh laboring rasps of his own breath as he drew it into tortured ...
— The Fifth-Dimension Tube • William Fitzgerald Jenkins


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