previous

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Contents 1 Pronunciation 2 Adjective 3 Preposition 3.1 Synonyms

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Positive previous

Comparative none

Superlative none

1. If something happend at a previous time, it happened before a particular time.

   Last year, we lived in Seoul, but the previous year we were in Moscow.

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Preposition previous

1. (sometimes after the noun) You use previous to refer to a time before something else.

   The history of this site previous to the seventeenth century is unknown.

   Four years previous, he had been sick for a month.

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• prior