Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English.
1.
A ~ event or thing is one that happened or existed before the one that you are talking about.
She has a teenage daughter from a ~ marriage...
He has no ~ convictions.
ADJ: ADJ n
2.
You refer to the period of time or the thing immediately before the one that you are talking about as the ~ one.
It was a surprisingly dry day after the rain of the ~ week...
ADJ: det ADJ