(formal) before, previous to.

A surname originating as an occupation for someone employed by a prior. / An unincorporated community in Douglas County, Missouri, United States.

Advance; previous; coming before. / Former, previous.

(US, law enforcement) A previous arrest or criminal conviction on someone's record.

(colloquial) Previously.

A high-ranking member of a monastery, usually lower in rank than an abbot. / (historical) A chief magistrate in Italy.

plural of Priore

A surname from Italian.

plural of prior

(law) In most systems of patent law, all information that has been made available to the public in any form before a given date that might be relevant to a patent's claims of originality, and to which the patent application is compared to determine if it in fact describes a new invention.