prior
Noun · AdjectiveOpen English WordNet
Adjective (1)
- earlier in timeSynonyms: anteriorOpposite subsequentSimilar antecedent
Noun (1)priors
- the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbotType of superior
What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz
Translations
Noun prior, deputy head of a monastery
Adjective of the probability of an event
- Japanese
- 事前 jizen
- Korean
- 사전 sajeon
- Hungarian
- előzetes
- Albanian
- paraprak
- Danish
- forudgående
- Esperanto
- antaŭa
- Latvian
- iepriekšējs
- Welsh
- blaenorol
Adjective coming before in importance, order, or time
- French
- préalable
- German
- vorausgehend
- Portuguese
- prévio
- Russian
- предше́ствующий predšéstvujuščij
- Arabic
- سابق sābiq
- Chinese
- 事前 shìqián
- Polish
- uprzedni
- Hungarian
- korábbi
- Portuguese (PT)
- prévio
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 事前 shìqián
6 more languages
- Catalan
- previ
- Danish
- forudgående
- Hebrew
- קודם kodem
- Latvian
- iepriekšējs
- Slovak
- predchádzajúci
- Welsh
- blaenorol
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: L. prior former, previous, better, superior; compar. corresponding to primus first, and pro for. See Former, and cf. Prime, adjective, and Pre-, Pro-.
1. Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; — used elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time] prior to his marriage.
2. First, precedent, or superior in the order of cognition, reason or generality, origin, development, rank, etc.
Origin: OE. priour, OF. priour, prior, priur, F. prieur, from L. prior former, superior. See Prior, adjective
1. Church The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity.
2. a chief magistrate, as in the republic of Florence in the middle ages. [RHUD]
Conventical prior, or Conventual prior, a prior who is at the head of his own house. See the Note under Priory. — Claustral prior, an official next in rank to the abbot in a monastery; prior of the cloisters.
a prior conviction; — said of an accused criminal. informal
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: 1913 supplement, GCIDE editors