previous
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1.0
- adjective
- /ˈpriːviəs/
:
anterior
- I have a previous engagement.
- previous studies
- previous research
- consistent with previous research
Well, we went through these two previous dialectics, right?
- Well, we went through these two previous dialectics, right?
- And it's much better than previous systems because it doesn't.
- Brown got swept by the Nets in the previous playoffs the year before.
- You will hear echoes in previous presentations in my talk.
- I think the previous guest wrote for you.
- It's like I'd written it at some point in the previous five years.
- They say there have been previous world aid cycles in the past.
- So I played around with the previous version of the Surface Laptop.
- I'm assuming that means watch, watch previous lives after the fact.
- I've talked about that in, in previous story as well.
- So I don't remember the most recent dream, but the previous dream was.
- That's compared to the previous generations step up.
- Maybe the fact that the previous God sanctified a place.
Examples
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What do the course profiles described in the previous section have in common?
Academic text (2017) -
All of this represented a considerable shift regarding the previous reception of US movies.
Academic text (2017) -
So we're using the values of N from the previous time.
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I think the previous guest wrote for you.
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What about the previous fire?
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We are told that the boy was arrested the previous night in a disturbance at a charity ball in a London hotel.
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Secondly, individual projects need to build on previous ones to provide some connection and continuity.
Academic text (2012) -
There was a section about previous criminal convictions.
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The operation lasted fifty days and was longer than all previous rounds of violence in Gaza.
Academic text (2015) -
We discussed the findings from the previous study before starting ours.
Synonyms
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1.0
A thing that belonged to or was used before the one you have now
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Existing earlier or having held a role before
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From an earlier time, not happening now
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2.9
Happening before something else in time
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4.1
Already present before something else happens, like a health condition
Already there before a given time or event
Present before something else happened
Coming before something in time or order
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Etymology
Previous comes from Latin parts pre- 'before' and via 'way', so it originally meant 'going before'. That's why previous describes something that happened earlier, like a previous meeting or the previous owner.