Usually means: In front or leading position.
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  1. ahead: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ahead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ahead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ahead: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ahead: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ahead, ahead: Wordnik
  7. ahead: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ahead: Wiktionary
  9. ahead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ahead: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ahead: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. AHEAD: Dictionary.com
  13. ahead: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. ahead: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Ahead: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ahead: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ahead: Rhymezone
  18. ahead: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ahead: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. AHEAD: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. AHEAD: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Ahead: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. ahead: Free Dictionary
  24. ahead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. ahead: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. ahead: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ahead: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ahead: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. AHEAD: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. ahead: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ahead: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AHEAD: Glossary of Nautical Terms
  2. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  3. Ahead: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  At or towards the front; in the direction one is facing or moving.
adverb:  So as to be further advanced, either spatially or in an abstract sense; to be superior.
adverb:  To be winning or in an advantageous position.
adverb:  In or for the future.
adverb:  To a later time.
adverb:  At an earlier time; beforehand; in advance.
adverb:  To an earlier time.

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