previous
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Pronunciation
[change]Adjective
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Positive |
Comparative |
Superlative |
- If something happened at a previous time, it happened before a particular time.
- Last year, we lived in Seoul, but the previous year we were in Moscow.
Preposition
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- (sometimes after the noun) You use previous to refer to a time before something else.
- Synonym: prior
- The history of this site previous to the seventeenth century is unknown.
- Four years previous, he had been sick for a month.