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Synonyms for previous


Grammar : Adj
Spell : pree-vee-uhs
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpri vi əs

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Définition of previous

Origin :
  • 1620s, from Latin praevius "going before," from prae "before" (see pre-) + via "road" (see via). Related: Previously.
  • adj former, prior
  • adj premature
Example sentences :
  • These were all the modifications he had to make in his previous statements.
  • Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
  • I suppose they do not know that you were—that you have had any previous hospital experience.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Palmer had the car out—had, indeed, not been home since the morning of the previous day.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Schwitter had taken in five hundred dollars the previous day.
  • Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
  • Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will be renamed.
  • Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire
  • On the previous day there was the first rehearsal of Handel's Admeto.
  • Extract from : « Handel » by Edward J. Dent
  • "My poor, dear child," she whispered, as she had done the previous evening in church.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • The previous evening she believed in something, but that had now passed by.
  • Extract from : « The Dream » by Emile Zola
  • The experience of the previous night taught Marian that Linda had arrived.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter
  • But he did not say that she had tried to draw it the day previous.
  • Extract from : « Her Father's Daughter » by Gene Stratton-Porter

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