(poetic/literary or archaic)before (in time) (诗/文,古)在…之前 [as prep.]we hope you will return ere long. 我们希望你很快回来。 [as conjunction]I was driven for some half mile ere we stopped. 我们驱车半英里之后才停下来。
语源
Old English ǣr, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch eer and German eher