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say it: PREE-vee-uh-slee
previously is an adverb meaning "at an earlier time or formerly". It is pronounced /ˈpɹiviəsli/ — PREE-vee-uh-slee. It carries one recorded sense.
at an earlier time or formerly
“she had previously lived in Chicago”
“he was previously president of a bank”
“better than anything previously proposed”
“a previously unquestioned attitude”
“antecedently arranged”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for previously come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.