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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
Saturday and none on Sunday — compared to more than 500 taken into custody during the unrest of the previous week.
Craven was told he had free licence with the story, but he could not contradict previous works.
In previous years, the curtain-raiser has been moved to the Friday night.
This account is drawn from the indictment and previous reporting by The Times, which has extensively covered the crime, widely known as the Brink’s heist.
As a result, Ferrari's 499P is a Le Mans icon, having won the race three times in a row - the previous two years by the works cars.
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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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