Erstwhile

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Erstwhile \Erst`while"\ (-hw[imac]l"), adv.
     Till then or now; heretofore; formerly. [Archaic] Erubescence

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  erstwhile


       adj : belonging to some prior time; "erstwhile friend"; "our
             former glory"; "the once capital of the state"; "her
             quondam lover" [syn: {erstwhile(a)}, {former(a)}, {once(a)},
              {onetime(a)}, {quondam(a)}, {sometime(a)}]
       adv : at a previous time; "once he loved her"; "her erstwhile
             writing" [syn: {once}, {formerly}, {at one time}, {erst}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "erstwhile":
     already, ancient, bygone, earlier, early, fore, former, formerly,
     heretofore, immemorial, late, old, olden, once, onetime, past,
     prehistoric, previous, previously, primeval, primitive, prior,
     quondam, recent, sometime, then, whilom