prior

  1. Adjective.  Of that which comes before, in advance.
  2. Adjective.  former, previous.
  3. Adverb.  (colloquial) Previously.
  4. Noun.  A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot.
  5. Noun.  (legal) A previous criminal offense on someone's record.
  6. Noun.  (statistics) In Bayesian inference, a prior probability distribution.

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