Generally you should eat dinner prior to brushing your teeth. Use the adjective prior for things that exist earlier in time or that happen first in time or order.
Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous;
Noun
the head of a religious order; in an abbey the prior is next below the abbot
a.
Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent;
anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used
elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time]
prior to his marriage.
a.
The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in
dignity.
Prior
Prior
Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent; anterior; previous;
The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in dignity.
Usage Examples
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate they didn't want to change the health care they had they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.
Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.
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Other Usage ExamplesPrior to the passage of the Patriot Act, it was very difficult - often impossible - for us to share information with the Central Intelligence Agency, with NSA, with the other intelligence agencies, and likewise, for them to share information with us.
I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
Prior to penicillin and medical research, death was an everyday occurrence. It was intimate.
Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.
My days, if they start in the morning with a cuddle from my son, are just so much more glorious than they were prior to that.
Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.
I can't get my head around the fact that the technology of the first two movies, which are forty years prior to Star Wars, is so much better than any technology they had in Star Wars!
Our enemies can deal a blow to us any time they wish. They did not wait for permission to do this. They do not deal a blow with prior notice. They do not take action because they can't.
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