Definitions for previous

previous pre·vi·ous

Spelling: [pree-vee-uh s]
IPA: /ˈpri vi əs/

Previous is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 297 anagrams from letters in previous (eioprsuv).

Definitions for previous

Idioms

  1. previous to, before; prior to:

adjective

  1. coming or occurring before something else; prior:
  2. Informal. done, occurring, etc., before the proper time; premature:

Origin of previous

1615-25; Latin praevius going before, equivalent to prae- pre- + vi(a) way + -us adj. suffix

Examples for previous

And their fundraising collapsed by 50 percent from the previous year.

There have been previous waves of people moving to Texas, and we are now experiencing the latest wave.

Millennials also thinks about our public personas so much more than previous generations.

Schwitter had taken in five hundred dollars the previous day.

Palmer had the car out—had, indeed, not been home since the morning of the previous day.

The legislation strengthens and updates a previous version of the bill that expired in 2011.

Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed.

This is even more striking in Submission than in his previous books.

I suppose they do not know that you were—that you have had any previous hospital experience.

These were all the modifications he had to make in his previous statements.

Word Value for previous
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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