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