Word Meanings - SOONER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In the western United States, one who settles on government land before it is legally open to settlement in order to gain the prior claim that the law gives to the first settler when the land is opened to settlement; hence, any one who does a thing

Additional info about word: SOONER

In the western United States, one who settles on government land before it is legally open to settlement in order to gain the prior claim that the law gives to the first settler when the land is opened to settlement; hence, any one who does a thing prematurely or anticipates another in acting in order to gain an unfair advantage.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SOONER)

• Afore
• Precedent
• antecedent
• foregoing
• ahead
• afront
• before
• beyond
• sooner

Related words: (words related to SOONER)

• AFOREHAND
  Beforehand; in anticipation. She is come aforehand to anoint my body. Mark xiv. 8.
• PRECEDENTLY
  Beforehand; antecedently.
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• ANTECEDENT
  1. Going before in time; prior; anterior; preceding; as, an event antecedent to the Deluge; an antecedent cause. 2. Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability. Syn. -- Prior; previous; foregoing.
• BEYOND
  1. On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than. Beyond that flaming hill. G. Fletcher. 2. At a place or time not yet reached; before. A thing beyond us, even before our death. Pope. 3. Past, out of the reach or
• FOREGO
  1. To quit; to relinquish; to leave. Stay at the third cup, or forego the place. Herbert. 2. To relinquish the enjoyment or advantage of; to give up; to resign; to renounce; -- said of a thing already enjoyed, or of one within reach,
• PRECEDENTED
  Having a precedent; authorized or sanctioned by an example of a like kind. Walpole.
• AFORE
  In the fore part of a vessel. (more info) 1. Before. If he have never drunk wine afore. Shak.
• AHEAD
  1. In or to the front; in advance; onward. The island bore but a little ahead of us. Fielding. 2. Headlong; without restraint. L'Estrange. To go ahead. To go in advance. To go on onward. To push on in an enterprise. -- To get ahead of.
• FOREGOER
  1. One who goes before another; a predecessor; hence, an ancestor' a progenitor. 2. A purveyor of the king; -- so called, formerly, from going before to provide for his household.
• ANTECEDENTLY
  Previously; before in time; at a time preceding; as, antecedently to conversion. Barrow.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• AFORECITED
  Named or quoted before.
• AFORENAMED
  Named before. Peacham.
• AFRONT
  In front; face to face. -- prep. In front of. Shak.
• PRECEDENTIAL
  Of the nature of a precedent; having force as an example for imitation; as, precedential transactions. All their actions in that time are not precedential to warrant posterity. Fuller.
• AFORETHOUGHT
  Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. Bouvier.
• AFORESAID
  Said before, or in a preceding part; already described or identified.
• AFOREGOING
  Going before; foregoing.
• SOONER STATE
  Oklahoma; -- a nickname.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• PINAFORE
  An apron for a child to protect the front part of dress; a tier.
• HEREINBEFORE
  In the preceding part of this .