former
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the first of two or the first mentioned of two
Tom and Dick were both heroes but only the former is remembered today
Types & categories
- first hypernym
Related & opposite
- latter antonym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | latter |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | first |