Usually means: Previously holding a specific position.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word former:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. former, the former: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. former, former: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. former, former: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. former, the former: Collins English Dictionary
  5. former: Vocabulary.com
  6. Former, former: Wordnik
  7. -former, former, the former: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. former: Wiktionary
  9. former: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. former: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. former: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Former, former, the former: Dictionary.com
  13. former: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. former: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Former: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Former: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. former: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. former: Rhymezone
  19. former, former: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. former: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. former: Free Dictionary
  22. former: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. -former, former: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. former: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -former, former: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -former, former: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -former, former: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -former, former: Idioms

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

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See formers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Previous.
adjective:  First of aforementioned two items. Used with the, often without a noun.
noun:  Someone who forms something; a maker; a creator or founder.
noun:  An object used to form something, such as a template, gauge, or cutting die.
noun:  (chiefly British, used in combinations) Someone in, or of, a certain form (class).

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