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previous
/ ˈːɪə /
adjective
(prenominal) existing or coming before something else in time or position; prior
informal(postpositive) taking place or done too soon; premature
before; prior to
Other Word Forms
- previously adverb
- previousness noun
- ˈ𱹾dzܲԱ noun
- ˈ𱹾dzܲ adverb
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of previous1
Idioms and Phrases
previous to, before; prior to.
Previous to moving here she lived in Chicago.
Example Sentences
There were no arrests on Sunday, when it was remarkably quiet downtown in the afternoon compared with the previous week.
Kohli, in particular, was desperate to do well in England after previous failures and Gill will surely be no different.
Plymouth owner Simon Hallett said last month that a previous agreement to sell a stake in the club had fallen through.
Unlike the previous day, there were only a handful of reporters waiting to collect his thoughts - BBC Northern Ireland and representatives from the Irish press.
On several previous occasions the IDF has acknowledged that its troops opened fire near aid sites.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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