What is the meaning of 前?
the front
the past
previous
a portion, an amount
ago
makes place names that refer to the vicinity of a point of interest
the last, the previous
pre- (of an era)
ago
before
an honorific suffix added to a noun denoting a person
chữ Hán form of tiền (“pre-, early (used to distinguish similarly named dynasties)”).
Source: wiktionary.org