Usually means: Knowledge independent of sensory experience.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word a priori:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. a priori: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. a priori: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. a priori: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. a priori: Collins English Dictionary
  5. a priori: Vocabulary.com
  6. a-priori, a priori: Wordnik
  7. a priori: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. a priori: Wiktionary
  9. a priori: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. a priori: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. A priori, a priori: Dictionary.com
  12. a priori: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. A priori (disambiguation), A priori (epistemology), A priori (languages), A priori (philosophy), A priori: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. A priori: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. a priori: Rhymezone
  16. A priori: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. a priori: Free Dictionary
  18. a priori: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. a_priori: Foreign Words and Phrases
  20. A priori: Phrase Finder
  21. a priori: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. a priori: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. a priori: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. a priori: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. a priori: Glossary of research economics
  2. A priori: Inflation Glossary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  4. A-priori, a priori: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A-priori, a priori: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Microbial Genetics Glossary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  2. a priori: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. a priori: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. a priori: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See apriority as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (a priori)

adjective:  (logic) Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence.
adjective:  Self-evident, intuitively obvious.
adjective:  Presumed without analysis.
adjective:  (linguistics, conlanging) Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages.
adverb:  (logic) In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation.

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