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Word: prior (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Adjective:

  • former, previous
  • Of that which comes before, in advance.

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Adverb:

  • colloquial Previously.

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Noun:

  • A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot.
  • legal A previous criminal offense on someone's record.
  • statistics In Bayesian inference, a prior probability distribution.

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