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Definition: Previous |
PreviousAdjective1. Just preceding something else in time or order; "the previous owner"; "my old house was larger". 2. (used especially of persons) of to the immediate past; "the former president"; "our late President is still very active"; "the previous occupant of the White House". 3. Too soon or too hasty; "our condemnation of him was a bit previous"; "a premature judgment". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "previous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Previous \Pre"vi*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression praevius going before, leading the way; prae before via the way. See Voyage.]. (references) |
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Tips from 1870 | Usage: Previous, Previously. The adjective previous is often incorrectly used for the adverb previously; as, "Previous to his imprisonment he made a confession of his crime." Source: Slips of Speech. |
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Synonyms: PreviousSynonyms: former(a) (adj), late(a) (adj), old (adj), premature (adj), previous(a) (adj), previous(p) (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Infrequency | Adjective: unfrequent, infrequent; rare, rare as a blue diamond; few; scarce; almost unheard of, unprecedented, which has not occurred within the memory of the oldest inhabitant, not within one's previous experience; not since Adam. |
Priority | Adjective: prior, previous; preceding, precedent; anterior, antecedent; pre-existing, pre-existent; former, foregoing; aforementioned, before-mentioned, abovementioned; aforesaid, said; introductory; (precursory). |
Relinquishment | Throw up the game, throw up the cards; give up the point, give up the argument; pass to the order of the day, move to the previous question. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Previous |
| English words defined with "previous": Previous to. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "previous": Moving the Previous Question. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "previous": Presensation. (references) |
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Screenplays | Boris, is Moose you said you killed in previous episode (The Bullwinkle Show; writing credit: Allan Burns; Chris Hayward) Perhaps the previous owner had nothing pleasant to say. (The Wind and the Lion; writing credit: John Milius) Possibly you're not recalling some of his previous plans (Firefly; writing credit: John Sullivan) Look, I don't know about your previous captains, but I intend to do as little dying as possible (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) Now, the Pope has previous plans, but he's trying to get out of them (Gilmore Girls; writing credit: Povl Erik Carstensen; Sebastian Dorset) | |
Clever | The patient has no previous history of suicides. (references; author: unknown) Everyday I beat my own previous record for number of consecutive days I've stayed alive. (references; author: unknown) | |
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 | Host cell plasma membrane derived from the previous host cell may cover the rickettsia. Transmission electron micrograph. Credit: CDC. |  | Within the membrane-lined phagocytic vacuole, the rickettsia may still be coated by plasma membrane derived from the previous host cell. Transmission electron micrograph. Credit: CDC. |
 | Ralph Pfau (l) Early morning computing of previous night's astronomic observations. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Footprints in the sand. A Great Blue Heron has left its tracks here along the river. Compare the sand texture in this picture to the previous image. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | Photo #2. Compare this cross-section to the previous image. Notice the greater width of the outer band. This is because the first cross-section was from a bluefin tuna caught in June while the second was from a tuna caught in November. The wider area represents a long period of high food intake during summer/ autumn months. These images are greatly magnified. Credit: Fisheries. |  | Taken at a higher elevation than the previous image, this image shows the pumping of sediments into the restoration area. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
 | Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. Looking north from the same vantage point as previous photo - nerr0475. Sand deposit continuing to inland side of island. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR). |  | Figure 3. Six's thermometer, 1782 model. A little different from the example in image ship 4282. These, like the previous example, were actually constructed in 1912 by Negretti and Zambra for displaying to the public at the Oceanographi c Museum. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
 | Figure 11. W. F. Ewald's photometer, messenger model, at the end of operation. Invented by Wolfgang F. Ewald about 1910 to fix some of the problems of the previous model. First tested about 1910 off the coast of Scotland. Other tests were then made off Capri. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |  | Aerial view of fringing reef adjacent to high volcanic island. Ship channel of previous photo extends to left in picture. Credit: Small World. |
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| "Hong Kong Skyline" by Michele Falzone Commentary: "This is a better scan of a previous upload. Enjoy the new high quality picture :)." | "Civil war soldier" by Loretta Humble Commentary: "Cropped version of previous photo." |
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Bernard Le Bovier Fontenelle | A well cultivated mind is made up of all the minds of preceding ages; it is only the one single mind educated by all previous time. |
Henry George | What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power. |
Lord Chesterfield | No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else. |
Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky | History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking. |
St. Jerome | Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness? |
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| Author | Date | Quotation |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-2022 | The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude-- Section 2. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | All previous historical movements were movements of minorities, or in the interests of minorities. (reference) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | If in any case the production during such previous six months was, in the opinion of the Commission, less than normal, the amount required may be 25 per cent. of the normal production. (reference) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | She was obliged, in spite of her previous determination to the contrary, to do it all the justice that Mrs. Weston foretold |
Tangled Tale | Carroll, Lewis | MARY thinks a train met on arrival must not be counted, even when met on a previous occasion |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The evening previous, only, had she tried to speak to him. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Some previous occupant had fitted up an oil can with a stovepipe, had made a hole in the wall for the stovepipe |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | In previous years I had often gone prospecting over some bare hillside, where a pitch pine wood had formerly stood, and got out the fat pine roots |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Eye injuries or previous eye surgeries. (references) | |
Such methods may be useful when a previous operation has failed. (references) | ||
ARDS can occur in individuals with or without previous lung disease. (references) | ||
Business | This marketing approach has proven to be superior to previous efforts. (references) | |
This represented a slight increase with respect to the previous quarter. (references) | ||
Several U.S. firms participated in some previous tenders for railways upgrading. (references) | ||
Children | Italy | A January 2000 law replaced previous legislation that prohibited discrimination against persons with disabilities in employment, education, or the provision of state services. (references) |
Japan | Through March police investigated 51 cases of child abuse, in which 20 adults were arrested, an increase of 30.8 percent over the previous year for the same period. (references) | |
Namibia | Disability issues received greater public attention than in previous years, with wider press coverage of the human rights problems that confront persons with disabilities. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Jordan | This last provision reflects a reduction in the requirements of previous legislation but places the burden of regulation on the JPA. (references) |
Croatia | The telecommunications council (the radio and television licensing body) was reformed similarly, although it has decided not to review decisions made under the previous regime. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | The Gbagbo Government has not used this law against journalists; however, in the previous year, the Guei Government used the libel law against a number of journalists. (references) | |
Economic History | Nigeria | Decades of neglect by previous governments, persistent poverty, and the dislocations and environmental damage caused by energy projects have aggravated socio-economic unrest throughout the delta. (references) |
Nicaragua | Nicaragua's economy grew by 4.3 percent in 2000, down from 7.4 percent in 1999. The lower rate growth was due to declining prices for Nicaragua's main export commodities; nevertheless, production and exports were significantly higher than in previous years. (references) | |
Nicaragua | Poultry and Livestock Genetics: In 2000, U.S. exports of hatching eggs to Nicaragua reached $4.3 million, compared to $2.7 million the previous year. (references) | |
Human Rights | Congo | Military courts sentenced civilians to death for crimes against national security; however, unlike in previous years, civilians were not sentenced to death for non-violent offenses. (references) |
Morocco | Previous Interior Ministers had never met with human rights NGO's. (references) | |
United Kingdom | Certain other provisions of previous terrorism legislation, applicable only to Northern Ireland, may be extended for a maximum of 5 years, based on the special security situation that continued to exist there. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Canada | The treaty ended a range of special tax breaks and other benefits available under previous arrangements. (references) |
Chile | The commission met during the year and is charged with issuing a report by January 2003. The number of incidents of unrest increased compared with the previous year. (references) | |
Malaysia | However, according to press reports, the head of an NGO working with Orang Asli said in May 2000 that school dropout rates among Orang Asli had increased markedly over previous years, and the percentage of Orang Asli living below the poverty line was increasing as well. (references) | |
Minorities | Liechtenstein | An October 2000 police report concluded that the problem of rightwing extremists had decreased slightly over previous years. (references) |
Syria | Although the Asad Government stopped the previous practice of stripping Kurds in Syria of their Syrian nationality (some 120,000 lost Syrian nationality under this program in the 1960's), it never restored their nationality. (references) | |
Ghana | No police action was taken in regard to any attacks from previous years. (references) | |
Political Economy | RUSSIA | Russia's overall imports in the first half of 2001 rose almost 25 percent from the still depressed levels for the same period in 2000. U.S. exports to Russia also increased in 2001, up about 18 percent from the previous year's level. (references) |
ROMANIA | After long negotiations, the previous government concluded with the IMF a new stand-by loan worth $535 million, the first installment ($73 million) of which was released in August 1999. A second tranche was released in June 2000 after significant delay, but the program expired in February 2001 without any more disbursements. (references) | |
SOUTH AFRICA | The Competition Act of 1998 took effect in September 1999. The Act replaced the previous legislation with new provisions for a much stronger and more independent competition authority. (references) | |
Political Rights | Cameroon | The new ruling coalition also included a faction of the UPC party, which was not the same faction that had participated in previous CPDM-dominated coalition governments under President Biya. (references) |
Djibouti | Previous efforts by both the legal and unrecognized opposition parties to unify also floundered due to disagreements among their leaders over who should lead a unified opposition. (references) | |
Tajikistan | This joint observation mission noted that there were improvements in the process compared to previous elections. (references) | |
Trade | Philippines | When it is not practical or possible to conform to the previous requirement, an alternative method shall be to print or stamp the required information on the outer-edge portion of the fabric roll or fold and, in addition, to attach tags at the beginning and end of the roll or folds. (references) |
Qatar | While no new foreign banks have been established recently in Qatar, the total assets of commercial banks grew steadily during this period, reaching Qatari Riyals (QR) 50.2 billion (US$ 13.8 billion) in 2000, against QR 47.6 billion (US$ 13.1 billion) in 1999. In previous years, the assets were: 1996: QR 33.9 billion (US$ 9.3 billion), 1997: QR 38.5 billion (US$ 10.6 billion) and 1998: QR 42.5 billion (US$ 11.7 billion). (references) | |
Vietnam | As these time-bound classifications do not address the probability of loss, they are liberal by international standards, although significantly improved over the previous method. (references) | |
Travel | Senegal | Proof of yellow fever immunization during the previous 10 years is mandatory to enter Senegal. (references) |
Dominican Rep | Law 139-97 mandates that holidays that falling on Tuesday or Wednesday be moved to the previous Monday, and for those falling on Thursdays or Friday to be moved to the following Monday. (references) | |
Russia | When holidays fall on weekends, Russian authorities generally announce during the week prior to the holiday whether it will be celebrated on the previous Friday or the following Monday. (references) | |
Women | Spain | A 1999 study commissioned by the Women's Institute, which is part of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, indicated that 4.2 percent of women reported domestic abuse in the previous year but concluded that the number who actually had been abused was closer to 12.4 percent, based on the survey responses of approximately 20,000 women. (references) |
Palau | The women's conference held in March continued its focus on previous issues and problems. (references) | |
Finland | Violence against women was a problem, and the Government took steps to combat it. Police statistics for 2000 recorded 2,876 cases of domestic violence, 51 more than during the previous year. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Afghanistan | Workers in government ministries reportedly have been fired because they received part of their education abroad or because of contacts with the previous regimes, although certain officials in previous administrations were employed under the Taliban. (references) |
Brazil | The informal sector has grown rapidly over the previous decade, and accounts for approximately half of the labor force. (references) | |
Romania | All workers except certain public employees have the legal right to associate freely and to form and join labor unions without previous authorization; however, there were reports that the Government restricted this right. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SOUL, n. A spiritual entity concerning which there hath been brave disputation. Plato held that those souls which in a previous state of existence (antedating Athens) had obtained the clearest glimpses of eternal truth entered into the bodies of persons who became philosophers. Plato himself was a philosopher. The souls that had least contemplated divine truth animated the bodies of usurpers and despots. Dionysius I, who had threatened to decapitate the broad- browed philosopher, was a usurper and a despot. Plato, doubtless, was not the first to construct a system of philosophy that could be quoted against his enemies; certainly he was not the last. "Concerning the nature of the soul," saith the renowned author of Diversiones Sanctorum, "there hath been hardly more argument than that of its place in the body. Mine own belief is that the soul hath her seat in the abdomen -- in which faith we may discern and interpret a truth hitherto unintelligible, namely that the glutton is of all men most devout. He is said in the Scripture to 'make a god of his belly' -- why, then, should he not be pious, having ever his Deity with him to freshen his faith? Who so well as he can know the might and majesty that he shrines? Truly and soberly, the soul and the stomach are one Divine Entity; and such was the belief of Promasius, who nevertheless erred in denying it immortality. He had observed that its visible and material substance failed and decayed with the rest of the body after death, but of its immaterial essence he knew nothing. This is what we call the Appetite, and it survives the wreck and reek of mortality, to be rewarded or punished in another world, according to what it hath demanded in the flesh. The Appetite whose coarse clamoring was for the unwholesome viands of the general market and the public refectory shall be cast into eternal famine, whilst that which firmly through civilly insisted on ortolans, caviare, terrapin, anchovies, pates de foie gras and all such Christian comestibles shall flesh its spiritual tooth in the souls of them forever and ever, and wreak its divine thirst upon the immortal parts of the rarest and richest wines ever quaffed here below. Such is my religious faith, though I grieve to confess that neither His Holiness the Pope nor His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury (whom I equally and profoundly revere) will assent to its dissemination." |
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Erin Runnion | May save some lives, that's what I'm saying. That it has to save lives. That's the only reason that this could happen. That the previous victims get to sleep better at night because he's gone. And just the knowledge that nobody else will be hurt by him. |
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres | We hope that their proposal for a peace project is a departure from their previous policies, not an extension of them. Clearly you cannot support war and peace at the same time. |
Robert Novak | As you know, a great deal of controversy over President Bush and his previous dealings with Harken Energy Company. The White House says this has all been thrashed about for years, nothing new has come out. |
Rush Limbaugh | Now, that sounded really familiar, because this CFR was passed after Clinton's impeachment, and the previous CFR bill was passed after Richard Nixon's resignation. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
John Adams | 1797-1801 | The assurances which were required of the French Government previous to the departure of our envoys have been given through their minister of foreign relations, and I have directed them to proceed on their mission to Paris. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | To have awaited a previous and special sanction by law would have lost occasions which might not be retrieved. |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | For a more enlarged view of the public finances, with a view of the measures pursued by the Treasury Department previous to the resignation of the late Secretary, I transmit an extract from the last report of that officer. |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | Information has been received at the Department of State that a treaty with the Emperor of Morocco has just been negotiated, which, I hope, will be received in time to be laid before the Senate previous to the close of the session. |
William H. Taft | 1909-1913 | In previous administrations an arbitration law for interstate commerce railroads and their employees, and laws for the application of safety devices to save the lives and limbs of employees of interstate railroads had been passed. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | This policy was a major advance over all previous efforts. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | But the basis for such spending had been laid in previous years. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Previous government reform reports gathered dust. |
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| "Previous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Previous" is used about 12,273 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 12,273 | 750 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "previous": balance brought forward from previous year ♦ balance carried forward from previous year ♦ move to the previous question ♦ not within one's previous experience ♦ Previous Abnormality of Glucose Tolerance ♦ previous announcement ♦ previous condition ♦ previous conviction ♦ previous convictions ♦ previous day ♦ previous endorser ♦ previous experience ♦ previous history ♦ previous intimation ♦ previous knowledge ♦ previous life ♦ previous offender ♦ previous paragraph ♦ previous question ♦ previous to ♦ previous year ♦ profit carried forward from previous year ♦ record of previous convictions ♦ surplus carried forward from previous year ♦ the previous day ♦ too previous. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "previous": previous-best, previous-highest. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "previous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | voormalige (ex-, former, last, prior), vroeëre (ex-, former, last, prior). (various references) | |
Albanian | i parakohshëm (early, immature, premature, untimely), i nxituar (cursory, hasty, headstrong, heady, hot-blooded, hot-headed, hurried, imprudent, precipitant, premature, rash, reckless, slapdash), i mëparshëm (antecedent, anterior, foregoing, former, neoteric, prior). (various references) | |
Arabic | متقدم (advanced, antecedent, forward, in progress, precedent, preceding, proceeding), مسبق (beforehand, predestination, prior), ماض (ago, back, bygone, cutting, departed, last, past), قبل (accede, accept, admit, agree to, approve of, assent, be accepted, before, concede, consent, fore, in front of, kiss, ok, okay, okey, previously, prior, sanction, settle for, subscribe, take, until), سالف (antecedent, antecessor, anterior, former, preceding, whiskers), سابقا (already, before, beforetime, formerly, once upon a time, previously), سابق لأوانه (premature, prematurely), سابق (antecedent, anterior, back, elder, ex-, fore, foregoing, former, harbinger, last, once, past, preamble, preceding, preliminary, prior, quondam, race). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | предшествуващ (aforegoing, antecedent, anterior, foregoing, precedent, precursory, prior), преден (advance, advanced, anterior, fore, forward, front, frontal, head, leading, preceding), предишен (former, late, old, precedent, preceding, quondam, whilom), прибързан (brash, hasty, headlong, ill-advised, impetuous, light hearted, overbold, precipitate, precipitatious, premature, rash, slapdash, sudden, unthinking, untimely, unwary), по-раншен (prior). (various references) | |
Chinese | 過去 (former, past, to go over, to pass by), 早先 (Previously), 往 (bound for, past, to go, toward, towards), 前 (ago, before, earlier, former, front, in front), 以前 (before, formerly), 上 (above, first, higher, on, on top, previous or last, to climb, to go into, to go up, upon, upper). (various references) | |
Czech | předešlý (prior, the last), předchozí (precedent), minulý (bygone, ci-devant, last, past, preterite). (various references) | |
Danish | forbigangen (former, last, prior). (various references) | |
Dutch | voorgaand (former, last, prior), verleden (former, last, past, prior). (various references) | |
Esperanto | antaŭa (former, last, prior). (various references) | |
Farsi | پیشین (Antecedent, Fore, Former, Olden, Primeval, Primitive, Prior, Pristine), مقدم (Antecedent, First, Preferential, Premier(Re), Prior), قبلی (Fore, Predecessor, Prior), سابقی (Old), جلوتر (Further), اسبقی . (various references) | |
Finnish | entinen (earlier, ex, former, one-time), edellinen (foregoing, pre, preceding), edelläoleva (foregoing, preceding), edelläkäyvä (preceding), edelläkäypä (preceding), aikaisempi (earlier). (various references) | |
French | précédent (precede, precedent, preceding, prior). (various references) | |
Frisian | foarig (former, last, prior). (various references) | |
German | vorig (former, last, past, prior), vorhergehend (antecedent, anterior, foregoing, precedent, preceding). (various references) | |
Greek | βιαστικόσ (cursory, hasty, hurried, precipitate, slapdash), πρότεροσ (fore, former, prior, quondam), προγενέστεροσ (anterior, prior), προηγούμενοσ (antecedent, anterior, anterior to, foregoing, former, formerly, precedent, preceding), προηγούμενος (antecedent). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קודם (antecedent, anterior, before, beforehand, foregoing, forerunner, former, preceding, previously, prior). (various references) | |
Hungarian | túl korai (premature), megelőző (antecedent, anticipatory, foregoing, preceding, preventive, prior, prophylactic), korábbi (antecedent, ci-devant, earlier, former, preceding, prior), elsietett (precipitous, slap-dash), elõzetes (anticipatory, precursory, preliminary, preparatory, prior), elõzõ (predecessor), elõbbi (antecedent, anterior, former, preceding), előző (preceding, prior), előbbi (ci-devant, preceding, prior). (various references) | |
Indonesian | sebelumnya (beforehand, formerly, previously), dulu-dulu (earlier, former), dahulu (once upon a time, one time, yore). (various references) | |
Italian | prematuro (abortive, early, premature, untimely), precoce (early, forward, precocious, premature), precedente (foregoing, former, late, precedent, preceding, prior, record, sometime), antecedente (antecedent, foregoing). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 従前 (former), 前 (ago, before, fore part, former, head, helping, in front, in the presence of, lady, one-time, portion, previously, the above, to), 先 (destination, end, former, head, late, nozzle, objective, old, point, precedence, prior, priority, remainder, sequel, the first priority, the future, the other party, tip), 以前 (ago, before, since), 一昔前 (long ago, of a former age). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぜん (ago, all, before, cancer, complete, entire, former, good, goodness, meal, niche or alcove for an image, one-time, overall, pan, prayer, right, table, the above, tray, virtue, vow, whole, wish, Zen), ひとむかしまえ (long ago, of a former age), さき (destination, end, following, former, head, nozzle, objective, point, prior, remainder, sequel, small peninsula, the first priority, the future, the other party, tip, undermentioned), せん (at length, attentively, beam, before, boastfully usurping, boil down, broil, carefully, choice, clip, compilation, cork, deeply, editing, fire, former, gland, hermit, hundredth of a yen, late, line, old, parch, precedence, priority, profoundly, roast, selection, snip, stopcock, stopper, the future, thousand, wire, wizard), いぜん (ago, as yet, before, in accordance with one's request, since, still, stomach cancer), じゅうぜん (absolute safety, bullet, consummation, eyelet, former, loophole, perfection). (various references) | |
Korean | 이전 (former). (various references) | |
Norwegian | forrige (last). (various references) | |
Papiamen | promer cu (before, previous to), antes cu (before, previous to). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eviouspray.(various references) | |
Polish | przedni (former, last, prior), poprzedni (former, last, prior). (various references) | |
Portuguese | precedente (ci-devant, foregone, former, last, precedent, preceding, prior), anterior (aforegoing, antecedent, anterior, erstwhile, first, fore, former, front, last, preceding, prior, whilom), antecedente (antecedent, foregone, former, last, prior). (various references) | |
Romanian | pripit (beforehand, foolish, hasty, hurried, impetuous, quick, rash, rashly, thoughtless), prematur (abortive, early, forward, immature, precocious, premature, prematurely, untimely), precedent (above, example, foregoing, last, precedent, preceding, prior), prealabil (preceding), fãcut prea devreme, anterior (above, anterior, fore, foregoing, former, formerly, prevenient, prior, prior to). (various references) | |
Russian | предшествующий (aforegoing, antecedent, antecedental, anterior, foregoing, preexisting, prior). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | predhodni (aforetime, antecedence, antecedent, foregoing, precedent, preceding, precursory). (various references) | |
Spanish | previo (anterior, forehand, prevenient), pasada (former, last, pass, passade, past, prior, row, turn). (various references) | |
Swedish | tidigare (antecedent, anterior, former, further back, heretofore, in the past, late, one time, onetime, previously, prior, sometime), föregående (aforegoing, antecedent, antecedents, anterior, foregoing, former, last, precedent). (various references) | |
Turkish | zamanından önce olan, sabık (earlier, erstwhile, ex, ex-, former, prior, quondam, sometime), geçmiş (antecedents, background, belated, bygone, case history, departed, former, gone, history, lang syne, passe, passee, past, standing, yesterdays), evvelki (antecedent, anterior), eski (ancient, archaic, auld, bygone, crusted, cut and dried, disused, earlier, early, erstwhile, ex, ex-, former, immemorial, late, obsolete, of long standing, of old, old, old time, old timer, olden, onetime, out of date, passe, passee, prior, quondam, secondhand, sometime, trite, used, vet, veteran), önceki (antecedent, anterior, before, ex, ex-, foregoing, former, hereinabove, last, old, onetime, pre-, preceding, prior, pristine, pro-, quondam, sometime, the former). (various references) | |
Turkmen | цсki (former). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | поспішний (hasteful, hasty, hurried, ill-judged, precipitate, precipitous, premature, pressing, snap), попередній (aforegoing, first, foregoing, head, precedent, preceding, precursive, precursory, preliminary, prior, tentative), передчасний (abortive, anticipatory, precocious, premature, untimely). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | $previous to$ trước khi. (various references) | |
Welsh | cyn- (ex-, first, former, pre-), blaenorol (antecedent, anterior). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | praevius, prior, priora, priore, priorem, priores, priori, prioribus, prioris, priorum, prius. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "previous": previously, previousness, previousnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Previous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eprevious, grevious, Pelvoux, perious, pernious, preious, presious, pretiosum, previas, previeous, previos, previou, previousy, previus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "previous" (pronounced prē"vēus) |
| 5 | -ē" v ē u s | devious. |
| 4 | -v ē u s | envious, impervious, lascivious, oblivious, obvious. |
| 3 | -ē u s | acrimonious, alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, commodious, contemporaneous, copious, courteous, curious, deleterious, delirious, denarius, dubious, erroneous, extraneous, fastidious, felonious, furious, gaseous, glorious, gregarious, harmonious, hideous, hilarious, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, illustrious, imperious, industrious, inglorious, injurious, insidious, instantaneous, invidious, laborious, lugubrious, luxurious, melodious, meritorious, miscellaneous, mysterious, nefarious, notorious, nucleus, obsequious, odious, pancreas, penurious, percutaneous, precarious, punctilious, radius, sanctimonious, Sartorius, serious, simultaneous, spontaneous, spurious, studious, supercilious, tedious, unceremonious, various, vicarious, victorious, vitreous. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: pervious, viperous. | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-o-p-r-s-u-v" | |
-1 letter: oversup, soupier. | |
-2 letters: poiser, poseur, proves, uprise, uprose, vipers, vireos. | |
-3 letters: euros, osier, ourie, overs, peris, piers, pious, poise, pores, poser, pours, pries, prise, prose, prove, puris, purse, repos, ripes, rives, ropes, roues, roups, rouse, roves, servo, sieur, sirup, siver, speir, spier, spire, spore, sprue, super, verso, viers, viper, vireo, vires, virus, visor. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-o-p-r-s-u-v" | |
+1 letter: purposive. | |
+2 letters: impervious, poxviruses, previously, propulsive, protrusive, proviruses, supervisor, supportive, viperously. | |
+3 letters: oversupping, purposively, sporulative, supervision, supervisors, supervisory. | |
+4 letters: imperviously, nonpurposive, oversupplied, oversupplies, parvoviruses, perviousness, polioviruses, posteruptive, previousness, protrusively, supervention, supervisions, unresponsive, vituperators, voluptuaries. | |
+5 letters: avoirdupoises, nondisruptive, oversupplying, papovaviruses, purpo | |
