What does prior mean?
Prior means Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous..
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/ˈpɹaɪ.ə/ · adjective
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.
Since therefore 'tis poſſible for all objects to become cauſes or effects to each other, it may be proper to fix ſome general rules, by vvhich vve may knovv vvhen they really are ſo. […] 2. The cauſe must be prior to the effect.
Lady Marney, duly warned of the impending catastrophe, was experiencing all the advantages of prior information.
"As these busts in the block of marble," though Miriam, "so does our individual fate exist in the limestone of time. We fancy that we carve it out; but its ultimate shape is prior to all our action."
These reconstructions took place with so great ease and rapidity at Abbeville, […] that there is now scarce vestige left of any building prior to the fifteenth century.
[T]he Mayor, […] seemed to have schooled himself into a course of strict mechanical rightness towards this woman of prior claim, at any expense to the later one, and to his own sentiments.
The doctor had known three months prior.
Use prior when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Prior means Coming before in order or time; earlier, former, previous..
Common synonyms include advance, antecedent, anterior, earlier.
Possible antonyms include posterior.
His prior residence was smaller than his current one.
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