prior
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prior1
▶adjective existing or coming before in time, order, or importance. ▶noun N. Amer. informal a previous criminal conviction.
– phrases
prior to before.
prior to before.
– origin C18: from L., lit. ‘former, elder’, rel. to prae ‘before’.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
prior2
▶noun (fem. prioress)
- 1 (in an abbey) the person next in rank below an abbot (or abbess).
- 2 the head of a house of friars (or nuns).
– derivatives
priorate noun,
priorship noun.
priorate noun,
priorship noun.
'prior' also found in these Oxford entries:
anterior
- collation
- condition
- costmary
- crown
- diriment impediment
- essentialism
- gantry
- Graafian follicle
- grand jury
- hearse
- Iron Curtain
- isagogics
- lentil
- let
- operant
- pluperfect
- pod
- preconceived
- preference
- premenstrual syndrome
- prerequisite
- priority
- priory
- provost
- remainder
- stall
- tack
- unbundle
- vernissage
- workshop
