Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗adv
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAt or towards the front; in the direction one is facing or moving. · So as to be further advanced, either spatially or in an abstract sense; to be superior. · In or for the future. · To a later time.
From a- + head. Perhaps originally a nautical term, beyond the head (of a ship), then drifting into more general English usage where it is used to describe something as being in front of.
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