fornenst

/fer-nenst/US // fərˈnɛnst //UK // (fɔːˈnɛnst) //

首先,第一次,第一,先

Definitions

prep.介词 preposition

1
Midland U.S. and British Dialect.
- : next to; near to: They walked fornenst one another down the sidewalk.
- : against; facing; opposite.

What do you think he seen fornenst him, sitting at the other side of the fire, but Father Dwyer himself.
Fornent, fornenst, forenenst; opposite: he and I sat fornenst each other in the carriage.
I will show that are proposition is unconstitutionable, inlegal, and fornenst the compact.
When he came (as he would have said) "ebbn fornenst" Robbie lying at the roadside, he jumped down from his seat.
P'raps thim tracks there was made fornenst the night, and that it's ourselves that was not here first.