fornenst
Americanpreposition
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next to; near to.
They walked fornenst one another down the sidewalk.
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against; facing; opposite.
preposition
Etymology
Origin of fornenst
from Scottish, from fore 1 + anenst a variant of archaic anent
Example Sentences
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"But teddin fer yew nor I, Jacob, tu go fornenst His will."
From The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 by A. R. (Augustus Robert) Buckland
"Sorra betther bottle ov wine's betuxt this and Salamanca, nor there's fornenst you on the table; it's raal Lachrymachrystal, every spudh ov it."
From Stories of Comedy by Rossiter Johnson
"P'raps thim tracks there was made fornenst the night, and that it's ourselves that was not here first."
From The Lost Trail by Edward Sylvester Ellis
"You wouldn't do behind his back what you'd be afraid to do fornenst his face, would you?"
From The Foolish Lovers by St. John G. (St. John Greer) Ervine
Howandiver, I mustn't forget that we left his Riv'rence and his Holiness sitting fornenst one another in the parlor ov the Vatican, jist afther mixing their second tumbler.
From Stories of Comedy by Rossiter Johnson
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