Crossword-Solution: PRIOR 5 letters, 174 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 7

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Word Word Type Definition
Prior a. Preceding in the order of time; former; antecedent;
anterior; previous; as, a prior discovery; prior obligation; -- used
elliptically in cases like the following: he lived alone [in the time]
prior to his marriage.
Prior a. The superior of a priory, and next below an abbot in
dignity.

We have 174 clues for the answer “PRIOR”

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"I have a ___ commitment" 1 answer
A monk next in dignity to an abbott. 1 answer
Abbey biggie 1 answer
Abbey figure 1 answer
Abbot aide 1 answer
Abbot next-in-commands 1 answer
Abbot's aide 1 answer
Abbot's assistant. 1 answer
Abbot's inferior 1 answer
Abbot's junior 1 answer
Abbot's right-hand man 1 answer
Abbot's side. 1 answer
Abbott's underling 1 answer
Abovementioned 1 answer
Former monastery leader 1 answer
Aymer, in "Ivanhoe." 1 answer
Before (with "to") 1 answer
Blotch on one's record 1 answer
Coadjutor of an abbot. 1 answer
Conviction, maybe 1 answer
Crime on the books 1 answer
Earlier arrest 1 answer
Earlier conviction 1 answer
Earlier in time (with "to") 1 answer
Earlier offense 1 answer
Earlier on 1 answer
Earlier; previous 1 answer
English poet Matthew 1 answer
English poet and diplomat (1664–1721). 1 answer
English poet-diplomat: 1664-1721 1 answer
Former community superior 1 answer
Happening earlier 1 answer
Earlier in time 1 answer
High monk 1 answer
High-ranking person in monastery 1 answer
Like some commitments 1 answer
Like some knowledge and commitments 1 answer
Middle of April or earlier 1 answer
Monastery figure below abbot 1 answer
Monastery figure ranked below an abbot 1 answer
Monastery inhabitant 1 answer
Monastery officer 1 answer
Monastery official 1 answer
Monastic V.I.P. 1 answer
Monastic leaader 1 answer
Monastic officer 1 answer
Monk outranked by an abbot. 1 answer
Official in a monastery 1 answer
Old conviction 1 answer
Opposite of subsequent 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETRAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRIOR (5)

The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or Duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
The United States' Constitution Founding Fathers 1975
She had never had a slave under her control previously to myself, and prior to her marriage she had been dependent upon her own industry for a living.
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass 1992
Prior to the Revolution there is a dearth of records; the earlier documents and archives of the Custom-House having, probably, been carried off to Halifax, when all the king’s officials accompanied the British army in its flight from Boston.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
The auctioning of large-scale enterprises is now in progress with the proceeds being held in escrow until the prior ownership (that is, Estonian or the Commonwealth of Independent States) can be established.
The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993
But LYNCH held out little expectation that the network marketplace would evolve in that way, because it required too much prior negotiation.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993

Quotes with PRIOR (3)

I invited a few people to help celebrate your birthday," Cameron said sheepishly. She threw up her hands. "Surprise.""We sort of come with the package," Collin explained. "Think of it as a collective gift from all of us to you: five bona fide annoying and overly intrusive new best friends.""It's the gift that keeps on giving," Wilkins said. Jack grinned. "I'm touched. Really. And since it appears I'm going to be moving in, let me be the first to say that all of you are always…
Julie James Something About You
It is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, — a thought so passionate and alive that like the spirit of a plant or an animal it has an architecture of its own, and adorns nature with a new thing. The thought and the form are equal in the order of time, but in the order of genesis the thought is prior to the form.
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who rule have always had an interest in shaping the perceptions of those they wish to rule. But never in the history of humanity has their toolbox been so full. Advances in technology and psychology have enabled the messages of the rulers to permeate our consciousness to a degree no prior society could have imagined.
James Rozoff
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 255 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).