Definition of ahead Ahead
/ʌhɛˈd/ - [uhed] - a•head
We found 19 definitions of ahead from 8 different sources.
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| ahead - having the leading position or higher score in a contest; "he is ahead by a pawn"; "the leading team in the pennant race" | ||
| in the lead, leading | ||
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| ahead - toward the future; forward in time; "I like to look ahead in imagination to what the future may bring"; "I look forward to seeing you" | ||
| forward | ||
| backward, back in a manner or order or direction the reverse of normal; "it's easy to get the `i' and the `e' backward in words like `seize' and `siege'"; "the child put her jersey on backward" | ||
| ahead - at or in the front; "I see the lights of a town ahead"; "the road ahead is foggy"; "staring straight ahead"; "we couldn't see over the heads of the people in front"; "with the cross of Jesus marching on before" | ||
| in front, before | ||
| ahead - ahead of time; in anticipation; "when you pay ahead (or in advance) you receive a discount"; "We like to plan ahead"; "should have made reservations beforehand" | ||
| in advance, beforehand | ||
| ahead - in a forward direction; "go ahead"; "the train moved ahead slowly"; "the boat lurched ahead"; "moved onward into the forest"; "they went slowly forward in the mud" | ||
| onward, onwards, forward, forwards, forrader | ||
| ahead - leading or ahead in a competition; "the horse was three lengths ahead going into the home stretch"; "ahead by two pawns"; "our candidate is in the lead in the polls"; "way out front in the race"; "the advertising campaign put them out front in sales" | ||
| out front, in the lead | ||
| ahead - to a different or a more advanced time (meaning advanced either toward the present or toward the future); "moved the appointment ahead from Tuesday to Monday"; "pushed the deadline ahead from Tuesday to Wednesday" | ||
| ahead - to a more advanced or advantageous position; "a young man sure to get ahead"; "pushing talented students ahead" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- ahead (adv.)
In or to the front; in advance; onward. - ahead (adv.)
Headlong; without restraint.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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ahead
In front of in space
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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ahead
a-hed′, adv. farther on: in advance: headlong, as in the phrase 'to go ahead.'
Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️
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ahead
avant, au devant, (from a and head, Sax.) further onward than the ship, or at any distance before her, lying immediately on that point of the compass to which her stem is directed. It is used in opposition to astern, which expresses the situation of any object behind the ship. See ASTERN.To run AHEAD of one’s reckoning, depasser, to sail beyond the place shewn erroneously in the dead-reckoning as the ship’s station.Line AHEAD. See the article LINE.A-HULL, à sec; à mats, & à cordes (from a and hull) the situation of a ship when all her sails are furled on account of the violence of the storm, and when having lashed her helm on the lee-side, she lies nearly with her side to the wind and sea, her head being somewhat inclined to the direction of the wind. See this further explained in the article TRYING.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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ahead
A term especially referable to any object farther onward, or immediately before the ship, or in the course steered, and therefore opposed to astern.--Ahead of the reckoning, is sailing beyond the estimated position of the ship.--Ahead is also used for progress; as, cannot get ahead, and is generally applied to forward, in advance.
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