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former | referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several) | |
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previous, former, late, anterior, prior, erstwhile, quondam, ex- | (used especially of persons) of the immediate past | |
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former | the first of two or the first mentioned of two | |
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former, onetime, old, erstwhile, one-time, quondam, sometime, previous, past, ex-, once | belonging to some prior time | |
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early, other, former | belonging to the distant past |