priority B2 Topic:Mind & Cognition US /pɹaɪˈɔɹ.(ə.)ti/ UK /pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ɪ.ti/ See IPA manual Freq #4392 Meanings 1 noun Something that is more important than other things and needs attention first. Getting a good night's sleep before the exam was her top priority. 2 noun The state of being treated as more important than something else. Emergency cases are given priority in the hospital. Thesaurus Synonyms 2 noun · the state of being treated... precedence More anteriority ↔ Opposites disfocus Word family Forms priorities Derived forms aperture-prioritynonpriorityprioritarianprioritiedprioritiseprioritizationprioritizesubpriorityunpriority Common collocations give priority Verb + noun Etymology AI details From Old French priorite, from Latin priōritās. Surface analysis: prior + -ity. priorite Old French priōritās Latin View etymology graph -> Topics Mind & Cognition External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # priority **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /pɹaɪˈɔɹ.(ə.)ti/ **IPA (UK):** /pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ɪ.ti/ **Frequency rank:** 4392 ## Meanings 1. Something that is more important than other things and needs attention first. 2. The state of being treated as more important than something else. ## Examples - Getting a good night's sleep before the exam was her top priority. - Emergency cases are given priority in the hospital. ## Synonyms - anteriority ## Antonyms - disfocus ## Derived Forms - aperture-priority - nonpriority - prioritarian - prioritied - prioritise - prioritization - prioritize - subpriority - unpriority ## Roots and Affixes - Root: priorite - Root: priōritās ## Etymology From Old French priorite, from Latin priōritās. Surface analysis: prior + -ity. ## AI Etymology Priority comes from Old French priorite, from Latin priōritās. Surface analysis: prior + -ity. The historical chain includes priorite (Old French), priōritās (Latin). In present-day English it covers something that is more important than other things and needs attention first and the state of being treated as more important than something else. The wider family includes derived forms such as aperture-priority, nonpriority, prioritarian, prioritied, prioritise. ## Topics - Mind & Cognition markdown