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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Previous \Pre"vi*ous\, a. [L. praevius going before, leading the way; prae before + via the way. See Voyage .] Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness. The dull sound ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Latin praevius "going before," from prae "before" (see pre- ) + via "road" (see via ). Related: Previously .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (used especially of persons) of the immediate past; "the former president"; "our late President is still very active"; "the previous occupant of the White House" [syn: former(a) , late(a) , previous(a) ] too soon or too hasty; "our condemnation of ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a previous marriage ▪ Anne is his daughter from a previous marriage. a previous occasion ▪ He insisted then, as on every previous occasion, that he was innocent. a previous/earlier study ▪ The report is a summary ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Previous (literally the antonym of next ) is an open source emulator of the proprietary 68k -based NeXT computer system family, aiming at emulating the original 68030 -based NeXT Computer and the 68040 -based NeXTstation and NeXTcube computers. The emulator ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. prior; occurring before something else, either in time or order. alt. prior; occurring before something else, either in time or order. n. (context informal UK English) An existing criminal record; short for "previous convictions".

Usage examples of previous.

New York news item: GANGSTERS WAR IN NEW YORK APARTMENT The account referred to the affray of the previous night.

The practice of yearly rotating crops from wheat to turnips to barley to clover and grass would seem to make sound economic as well as agronomic sense, which was undoubtedly why the previous Earl of Blackthorn had not deviated from the use of it.

The light of our world can be allocated because it springs from a corporeal mass of known position, but conceive an immaterial entity, independent of body as being of earlier nature than all body, a nature firmly self-based or, better, without need of base: such a principle, incorporeal, autonomous, having no source for its rising, coming from no place, attached to no material mass, this cannot be allotted part here and part there: that would be to give it both a previous position and a present attachment.

The next instant the seat of the chair rose up audibly to its normal level, and the antimacassar fell out into its usual folds, still preserving, however, the traces of its previous wrinkles.

To cleanse out the passages previous to applying the Catarrh Remedy fluid, take one quart of soft water, add to it two large tablespoonfuls of common salt, and shake it up occasionally until all is dissolved.

Every previous arcology had begun its life as a hopefully self-sufficient entity.

I hold an assignment of said judgment, dated the 20th of May, 1828, and signed by said Anderson, I have never pretended to deny or conceal, but stated that fact in one of my circulars previous to the election, and also in answer to a bill in chancery.

October, and consummated on the same date with female issue born 15 June 1889, having been anticipatorily consummated on the lo September of the same year and complete carnal intercourse, with ejaculation of semen within the natural female organ, having last taken place 5 weeks previous, viz.

Ireland in respect to crime and outrage, more especially when the exercise of that right by the house of lords does not interfere with any previous proceeding or resolution of the house of commons, nor with the progress of any legislative measure assented to by the house of commons, or at present under its consideration.

The hallway was bleak, decorated with yellowed grade sheets from the previous semester and the flyers that promised overseas employment or assistantships at unfamiliar colleges.

UN Astronautics Commission notified by Limberg just previous to this statement.

The same thing will hold good with regard to Cape Horn: it appears from previous observation that a permanent barometric depression exists in this locality, most probably in some way connected with the immense depression noticed by Captain Sir James Clark Ross, towards the Antarctic Circle.

When the two barrages met, both lines were to switch to short-vision-range barrage and continue to close in on any of the enemy who might have drifted through the previous curtain of fire.

Lugging sonic battering rams, the new penetration team--five times the size of the previous squad--rushed up to the barricaded doors on the quiet side of the sprawling facility, choosing to enter through wings less likely to be occupied by the murderous compies.

Many showed no magical power at all, and Avelyn soon realized that these were the remnants of previous showers, brought up to the surface by the battering of the storm.