Wiktionary:Word of the day/2024/June 27

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for June 27
prior n
  1. (Christianity) A high-ranking member of a religious house or religious order.
    1. In an abbey, the person ranking just after the abbot, appointed as his deputy; a prior claustral.
    2. The head of a priory (“a monastery which is usually a branch of an abbey”), or some other minor or smaller monastery; a prior conventual.
    3. The head friar of a house of friars.
    4. The head of the Arrouaisian, Augustinian, and formerly Premonstratensian religious orders.
    5. An honorary position held by a priest in some cathedrals.
  2. (historical)
    1. A chief magistrate of the Republic of Florence (1115–1569) in what is now Italy.
    2. The elected head of a guild of craftsmen or merchants in some countries in Europe and South America.
  3. (obsolete)
    1. A person who is the earliest or most prominent in a field; the chief.
    2. (business) The head of a company. [...]
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