previouslyadverb
uk/ˈpriː.vi.əs.li/us/ˈpriː.vi.əs.li/B1 before the present time or the time referred to:
She was previously employed as a tour guide.
I had posted the card two months previously.
More examples
- This information was previously unavailable to the public.
- Has anything similar happened previously, or is this the first time he has behaved like this?
- Factions previously at war with one another are now united against the common enemy.
- The album includes four previously unreleased tracks.
- About 23% of men and women aged 25 to 34 told researchers they had previously cohabited with a partner without it leading to marriage.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
In the past
- ago
- any more idiom
- anymore
- back in the day idiom
- before
- clock
- dot
- late
- memory
- more
- no longer idiom
- of late idiom
- of old idiom
- old
- past
- the status quo ante
- the week/month/year before last idiom
- the year dot idiom
- use
- used
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