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Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. adjective just preceding something else in time or order
  2. adjective (used especially of persons) of the immediate past
  3. adjective too soon or too hasty

Etymology

From Latin praevius.

In classic literature

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