forehand

See also: Forehand

English

Etymology

From fore- ‎ hand.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /fɔːhænd/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /fɔːɹhænd/

Noun

forehand (plural forehands)

1. (racket sports) A stroke in which the palm of the hand faces the direction of the stroke.
2. (disc sports) A throw similar to a sidearm throw in baseball, where the disc remains on the throwing-arm side of the body and is led by the middle finger.
3. All of the part of a horse which is before the rider.
   • 1618, Michel Baret, An Hipponomie […] :

     […] those horses which are of a chicke Forehand, short necked

4. (archaic) The chief or most important part.
   • 1602, William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, act 1, scene 3:

     The great Achilles, whom opinion crowns / The sinew and the forehand of our host

5. Superiority; advantage; start; precedence.
   • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

     And, but for ceremony such a wretch,
     Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep,
     Had the forehand and vantage of a king

6. (surfing) The hand towards the front of the board.

Synonyms

• (kind of throw in sports): flick

Antonyms

• backhand

Translations

stroke in racket sports

• Bulgarian: форхенд m (forhend)
• Catalan: cop de dreta (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 正手 (zh) (zhèngshǒu)

• Czech: forhend (cs) m
• Finnish: kämmenlyönti (fi)
• French: coup droit (fr) m
• Hungarian: tenyeres (hu)
• Polish: forhend (pl) m
• Romanian: forehand n
• Serbo-Croatian: forhend (sh) m
• Swedish: forehand c, forehandslag n

all of the part of a horse which is before the rider

• Bulgarian: предница (bg) f (prednica)

Adjective

forehand (not comparable)

1. Beforehand; paid in advance.

   a forehand rent

Antonyms

• afterhand

Verb

forehand (third-person singular simple present forehands, present participle forehanding, simple past and past participle forehanded)

1. (transitive) To strike with a forehand stroke.