- PRIOR | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
PRIOR definition: 1 existing or happening before something else, or before a particular time: 2 before a… Learn more
- Prior Definition Meaning | Britannica Dictionary
PRIOR meaning: 1 : existing earlier in time previous; 2 : more important than something else because it came first
- PRIOR Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
previous and prior imply existing or occurring earlier, but prior often adds an implication of greater importance
- Prior - definition of prior by The Free Dictionary
Usage Note: Though prior usually modifies a noun that comes after it, as in prior approval, it sometimes modifies a noun for a unit of time which precedes it, as in five years prior
- PRIOR definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
A prior claim or duty is more important than other claims or duties and needs to be dealt with first The firm I wanted to use had prior commitments
- prior, adj. , adv. , n. ² meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English . . .
The earliest known use of the word prior is in the early 1600s OED's earliest evidence for prior is from 1607, in the writing of Barnabe Barnes, poet and playwright
- prior - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
This adjective has no positive form; rather, it serves as the comparative (prior) and superlative (prīmus) of the preposition prae (Compare the preposition post, with comparative posterior and superlative postremus)
- Prior (ecclesiastical) - Wikipedia
Prior (or prioress) is an ecclesiastical title for a superior in some religious orders The word is derived from the Latin for "earlier" or "first" The office may head a local house, a region of houses (prior provincial), or the entire order (prior general) Its earlier generic usage referred to any monastic superior In abbeys, a prior would be lower in rank than the abbey's abbot or abbess
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