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prior to

prior to preposition: before, previous to.

Preposition

prior to

  1. (formal) Before, previous to.

prior to meaning in Malayalam, Arabic and Persian

prior to in Malayalam

previous to, before, until
മുമ്പായി, മുമ്പ്, മമ്പേ, ഇതുവരെ, ഇതുവരെയോളം, വരെ

prior to in Arabic

before (formal)
قَبْل qabl

prior to in Persian

before (formal)
پیش از piš az

Questions about prior to

What does prior to mean?
Prior to means before, previous to.
What is prior to in Malayalam?
Prior to in Malayalam is മുമ്പായി, മുമ്പ്, മമ്പേ. See Prior to meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is prior to?
Prior to is a preposition.

Words near prior to in the dictionary

  1. prior knowledge
  2. prior probabilities
  3. prior probability
  4. prior restraint
  5. prior restraints
  6. prior to
  7. priorable
  8. prioracy
  9. priorate
  10. priorates
  11. Priore

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: prior to (page history and authors); prior to (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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