adjective [onlybeforenoun]
1 happening or existing before the event or object that you are talking about:
No previous experience is necessary for this job. * The car has only had one previous owner. * She is his daughter from a previous marriage. * I was unable to attend because of a previous engagement. * The judge will take into consideration any previous convictions. * We dealt with this in a previous chapter. * We had met on two previous occasions.
2 immediately before the time you are talking about
SYNPRECEDING:
I couldn't believe it when I heard the news. I'd only seen him the previous day.
previously adverb:
The building had previously been used as a hotel. * The book contains a number of photographs not previously published. * I had visited them three days previously.
previous to preposition (spoken):
Previous to this, she'd always been well.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for previous is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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