before someone's time
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.31 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
18
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
From before one was born or old enough to be aware of the world.
prep_phrase
At a stage in one's life, development, etc. that seems premature.
Example Sentences
- "I don't know — that was before my time"
- "At thirteen, I liked a lot of music that was before my time: Louis Armstrong and Dixieland jazz, Sousa marches, and barbershop quartet singing."
- "dead before his time"
- "Oh yes, and tell her to take care of herself too, and not get herself all banged up again, or she will look old before her time."
- "Jimi Hendrix is buried at Evergreen Memorial Park in Renton. The electric guitar player extraordinaire died before his time at the young age of 27."
- ""Unless you become the third apprentice to quit before his time?""