Synonyms:
anterior, prior(a)
Meaning: earlier in time
noun
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
prior
Meaning: the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot
Usage examples
This occurred prior to 1830.
Prior to this, I had become, if not insensible to my lot, at least partly so.
But let me ask a prior question: You admit that there are differences of arts?
For ten years prior to my father's death he took no active part in the business.
With these words, having signed to his companions to unchain the prisoner, the prior tenderly embraced him.
They purposed remaining in London only three days, prior to departing for some weeks to a distant part of the coast.
It was prior to her coming into the possession of Moore that Aunt Hannah had been made to drink the bitter waters of oppression.
Not so--the flowing quality of speech is much more, for it is a composite effect, with each of its prior conditions deserving of careful notice.
But we spent two evenings, with only four of us present, prior to the disastrous events which changed everything, and of which I am soon to tell you.
Judgment is employed in the perception; otherwise the perception is mere sensory excitation or else a recognition of the result of a prior judgment, as in the case of familiar objects.