former
fawr mer
- n the first of two or the first mentioned of two
Tom and Dick were both heroes but only the former is remembered today - a referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several); I prefer the former version to the latter one"
- s belonging to some prior time
our former glory - s (used especially of persons) of the immediate past
the former president - s belonging to the distant past
former generations
- Yet allegations that the former First Family benefited from favoritism, commonly heard in Indonesia since the early 1980s, began to grow louder when the former President resigned.
- Nuon Chea is the most outspoken of the former Khmer Rouge leaders; other likely targets of the tribunal have taken a lower-key approach.
- Beth Nolan, the former White House counsel who opposed the Rich pardon, agreed to talk to White's prosecutors outside of the grand jury.