Synonym: earlier, first, past, preceding, previous, prior. Antonym: later, latter, present. Similar words: performer, formerly, farmer, armed, bewilderment, norm, form, formal. Meaning: ['fɔrmə(r) /'fɔːm-] 
n. the first of two or the first mentioned of two. adj. 1. referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several) 2. belonging to some prior time 3. (used especially of persons) of the immediate past 4. belonging to the distant past.
n. the first of two or the first mentioned of two. adj. 1. referring to the first of two things or persons mentioned (or the earlier one or ones of several) 2. belonging to some prior time 3. (used especially of persons) of the immediate past 4. belonging to the distant past. 
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211 Britain was mandated to govern the former colony of German East Africa.
212 The restaurant was hopelessly mismanaged by a former rock musician with no business experience.
213 The eighteenth-century building has been restored to its former glory.
214 The former leader now has to watch his successor unpicking much of what he strived so hard to achieve.
215 She finally settled with her former employers for an undisclosed sum.
216 The former dictator is under house arrest in his country mansion.
217 At my suggestion, Bernard went to see his former teacher.
218 The judge upheld her claim for damages against her former employer.
219 Former students of this school are now working in the four corners of the earth.
220 In an exclusive interview with David Frost, the former president made many revelations.
221 He is accused of complicity with the leader of the coup, former Colonel Gregorio Honasan.
222 He is too proud now to be seen with his former friends.
223 No one wants to employ somebody who bad-mouths their former employer.
224 The former president stands accused of lying to the nation's parliament.
225 A former associate of Mr. Pierce's was among the project's boosters.
226 The former minister has been making himself unpopular recently(sentencedict.com), sniping at his ex-colleagues.
227 That politician is too closely identified with the former government to become a minister in ours.
228 The victorious nations are demanding huge indemnitiesfrom their former enemies.
229 It was more in sorrow than in anger that he criticized his former colleague.
230 In 1918 the Romanian majority in this former tsarist province voted for union with Romania.
231 She used the article to make a sustained assault on her former political allies.
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232 The bond between the mother country and her former colonies grew stronger.
233 Miss Snowden yesterday launched a vituperative attack on her ex-boss and former lover.
234 The buildings have now been restored to their former glory.
235 In former times, only property owners could be registered as voters.
236 Renshaw reveals 20 bizarre ways in which women have got their own back on former loved ones.
237 He would want you to remember him as he was in former years.
238 In former times, criminals could take sanctuary inside a church.
239 The former leader of the terrorist group has called for an end to the violence.
240 Getting a former professional player as coach was a major coup for the club.