Definitions for Prior

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Prior pri·or

Spelling: [prahy-er]

IPA: /ˈpraɪ ər/

Prior is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in Prior (ioprr).

Definitions for Prior

noun

1. Informal. a prior conviction.
2. an officer in a monastic order or religious house, sometimes next in rank below an abbot.
3. a chief magistrate, as in the medieval republic of Florence.
4. Matthew, 1664–1721, English poet.

Idioms

1. prior to, preceding; before:

adjective

1. preceding in time or in order; earlier or former; previous:
2. preceding in importance or privilege.

Origin of Prior

1705-15; Latin: former, elder, superior (adj.), before (adv.); akin to prime, pre-

Examples for Prior

And prior to that day, it shocked me a lot, it shocked me a lot.

“In the months prior to that, when we started taking prisoners [in Afghanistan], we were improvising,” he said.

Have we not all an interest in it, and a prior right, if right were to have taken place?

When he had come to where the prior sat, he knelt upon one knee.

I was afraid you might have had some prior engagement, and would have found it impossible to be with us.'

Then the first word that the prior said to him was "Hast thou brought my money?"

Beside the Bishop rode the prior of Emmet upon a mincing palfrey.

In fact, he was in contact with Lansky prior to converging from the hillside onto the streets of Havana.

The cop was not named, but was identified as an African-American veteran of the division with no prior infractions.

He was one of few outspoken activists in Syria prior to the uprising that took a place in March of 2011.