pre

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pre"

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹi/

• Audio (General Australian):

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Etymology 1

From Latin prae (“in front of”); see pre-.

Preposition

pre

1. Before (something significant).

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:pre.

Derived terms

• pre-existing

Etymology 2

Clippings.

Noun

pre (countable and uncountable, plural pres)

1. (slang, in the plural) Clipping of predrinks.
   • 2022 February 28, Malou Baumann, “A round-up of all the best drinking games”, in The Tab‎^[1], archived from the original on 2022-07-06:

     This one's for a short and sweet pres before heading to the club. If you're aiming to get absolutely SMASHED in a short amount of time, this is the game for you!

2. (slang) Clipping of precum.
3. (slang) Clipping of preparty.
   • 2007 September 21, Nina Ubaldi, “Lose the hype and formals can be fun”, in The Sydney Morning Herald‎^[2]:

     The formal is about 95 per cent hype and hysteria, and about 5 per cent actual formal, and the pre-formal gathering of parents and kids is about as hypey and hysterical as it gets... After the pres, the night mirrors the increasing pain of high heels as they go from shiny and exciting to plain uncomfortable.

Verb

pre (third-person singular simple present pres, present participle preing, simple past and past participle pred or preed)

1. (slang) Clipping of pre-drink.
   • 2017 May 26, Paige McPhee, “13 Toronto Staycations For The Ultimate Girls Weekend”, in Narcity‎^[3], archived from the original on 2021-10-23:

     This view alone is reason enough to book up this place for a girl's weekend. Imagine preing outside the city lights, playing the Lemonade visual album full blast on Apple TV.

   • 2022 February 28, Malou Baumann, “A round-up of all the best drinking games”, in The Tab‎^[4], archived from the original on 2022-07-06:

     It's your average Saturday night and you're preing with your mates so you won't have to waste tonnes of money in some average bar. No one can come up with a good drinking game, so you just resort to the classics: Beer Pong and Ring of Fire.

   • 2022 November 10, Myfanwy Fleming-Jones, “Manchester Student Fight Night – All you need to know!”, in The Mancunion‎^[5], archived from the original on 2022-11-26:

     Fight Night, one of the most notorious student nights of the year, returns this month. Getting dressed up with your friends, preing way too hard, and finally Ubering to the AO Arena where the hip flask you smuggled in definitely comes in handy.

2. (slang) Clipping of precum.

Anagrams

• EPR, ERP, PER, Per., RPE, Rep, Rep., per, per-, per., rep

Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin praeda.

Noun

pre f

1. prey
2. quarry

See also

• viktimë

Lawi

Noun

pre

1. hail

Further reading

• Theraphan L. Thongkum, The place of Lawi, Harak and Tariang within Bahnaric (1997), in The Mon-Khmer Studies Journal, volume 27

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• prȉje (Ijekavian)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prê/

Adverb

prȅ (Cyrillic spelling пре̏)

1. before, earlier

Preposition

prȅ (Cyrillic spelling пре̏) (+ genitive case)

1. before
2. ago

Slovak

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *per, from Proto-Indo-European *per-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /prɛ/

Preposition

pre [with accusative]

1. for, for the sake of

   Synonyms: kvôli, za

   • 1943, Dobroslav Chrobák, Drak sa vracia. Chapter 2:

     Rozpárali aj ostatné vrecia a každý sa snažil uchytiť pre seba čo najviac.

     They ripped the other sacks open as well and everyone tried to take as much as possible for himself.

2. for, because of, due to

   Synonyms: skrz, skrze, následkom, vďaka, vinou

   • 1902, Janko Jesenský, Papuča In: Novely:

     Vravel pomaly a smial sa ako tuční ľudia, ktorí pre nízky krk nemôžu jasne hovoriť, ani smiať sa hlasne.

     He said slowly and he was laughing as fat people do, who cannot speak clearly nor laugh loudly because of their low neck.

Further reading

• “pre”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2024

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɾe/ [ˈpɾe]
• Rhymes: -e
• Syllabification: pre

Noun

pre m (plural pres)

1. (obsolete) loan

Derived terms

• estar a pre

 

Further reading

• “pre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Umbrian

Preposition

pre (late Iguvine)

1. See 𐌐𐌓𐌄 (pre).

Romanization

pre

1. Romanization of 𐌐𐌓𐌄