HELPNOTE For the special uses of ahead in phrasal verbs, look at the entries for the verbs. For example press ahead (with sth) is in the phrasal verb section at press.
1 further forward in space or time; in front:
I'll run ahead and warn them. * The road ahead was blocked. * We've got a lot of hard work ahead. * This will create problems in the months ahead. * He was looking straight ahead (= straight forward, in front of him).
2 earlier; in advance:
The party was planned weeks ahead.
3 winning; further advanced:
Our team was ahead by six points. * You need to work hard to keep ahead.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for ahead is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is ahead a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, ahead is tagged as adverb.
Does ahead appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — ahead appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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