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PRIOR
✓ IT'S A WORD
TWL06 ✓
SOWPODS ✓
ENABLE1 ✓
Classic
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Big
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Super Big
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PRIOR is a valid 5-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 2 in Classic, 2 in Big, and 2 in Super Big Boggle.
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adjective
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Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous.
- His prior residence was smaller than his current one.
- I had no prior knowledge you were coming.
- More important or significant.
- Chiefly in prior probability: of the probability of an event: determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
adverb
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Chiefly followed by to: in advance, before, previously.
- The doctor had known three months prior.
noun
- A prior probability distribution, that is, one determined without knowledge of the occurrence of other events that bear on it, before additional data is collected.
- broadlyIn the rationalsphere: a belief supported by previous evidence or experience that one can use to make inferences about the future.
- CanadaUSA previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's criminal record.
- In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.
- The head of a priory (“a monastery which is usually a branch of an abbey”), or some other minor or smaller monastery; a prior conventual.
- The head friar of a house of friars.
- The head of the Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly Premonstratensian religious orders.
- An honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals.
- historicalA chief magistrate of the Republic of Florence (1115–1569) in what is now Italy.
- historicalThe elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and South America.
- obsoleteA person who is the earliest or most prominent in a field; the chief.
- obsoleteThe head of a company.