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Definition of Early

1. Adjective. At or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time. "Early varieties of peas and tomatoes mature before most standard varieties"

2. Adverb. During an early stage. "Early on in her career"

3. Adjective. Being or occurring at an early stage of development. "An early computer"

4. Adverb. Before the usual time or the time expected. "The house was completed ahead of time"

5. Adjective. Belonging to the distant past. "In other times"

6. Adverb. In good time. "He awoke betimes that morning"

7. Adjective. Very young. "At an early age"

8. Adjective. Of an early stage in the development of a language or literature. "Early Modern English is represented in documents printed from 1476 to 1700"

9. Adjective. Expected in the near future. "Look for an early end to the negotiations"

Definition of Early

1. adv. Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early.

2. a. In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season; prior in time; among or near the first; -- opposed to late; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit.

Definition of Early

1. Adjective. At a time in advance of the usual or expected event. ¹

2. Adjective. Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on-time. ¹

3. Adjective. Near the start or beginning. ¹

4. Adverb. At a time before expected; sooner than usual. ¹

5. Noun. A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place early in the day. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Early

1. near the beginning of a period of time or a series of events [adv -LIER, -LIEST]

Medical Definition of Early

1. 1. In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season; prior in time; among or near the first; opposed to late; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit. "Early and provident fear is the mother of safety." (Burke) "The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass springing up about them." (Hawthorne) 2. Coming in the first part of a period of time, or among the first of successive acts, events, etc. "Seen in life's early morning sky." (Keble) "The forms of its earlier manhood." (Longfellow) "The earliest poem he composed was in his seventeenth summer." (J. C. Shairp) Early English See the Note under English. Early English architecture, the first of the pointed or Gothic styles used in England, succeeding the Norman style in the 12th and 13th centuries. Synonym: Forward, timely, not late, seasonable. Origin: OE. Earlich. See Early. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Early

earlies earliest earlike earliness earlinesses earlobe earlobes earlock earlocks earloop

earloops earls earlshannonite earlship earlships early (current term) early(a) early-bound early-morning hour early-phase response

early-type star early adopter early adopters early ambulation early bath early binding early bird early bird catches the worm early birds early childhood

Literary usage of Early

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"-¡ana early train; colt of an ass, ass's colt (. foal)]; don- the early bird catches the worm: early sho ass. Jenny (-ass). ..."

2. Our Indian Wards by George Washington Manypenny (1880)
"THE early explorers that visited the "New World" were met by the native ... All early annals are agreed on this fact. The kindness and confidence of the ..."

3. Portraits of the Sixties by Justin McCarthy (1903)
"PORTRAITS OF THE SIXTIES CHAPTER I THE early SIXTIES THE early sixties have left a clear and deep impression on my memory. It was in the earliest of the ..."

4. Outlines of Roman Law: Comprising Its Historical Growth and General Principles by William Carey Morey (1894)
"CHAPTER I. THE ORGANIZATION OF early ROMAN SOCIETY. IN explaining the origin of law, a wide difference of opinion has hitherto separated the purely ..."

5. British Novelists and Their Styles: Being a Critical Sketch of the History by David Masson (1859)
"LECTURE I. ON THE NOVEL AS A FORM OF LITERATURE, AND ON early BRITISH PROSE FICTION. (1.) NATURE OP THE NOVEL—THE NOVEL A FORM OF P0- ETRY — ITS RELATION TO ..."

6. The Free School Idea in Virginia Before the Civil War: A Phase of Political by William Arthur Maddox (1918)
"Cf. Brown, Alexander, English Politics in early Virginia History, 8,,, et seq. ... One of Berkeley's early acts,, was a "Declaration against the company" in ..."

7. The Transit of Civilization from England to America in the Seventeenth Century by Edward Eggleston (1901)
"MENTAL OUTFIT OF THE early COLONISTS. I. WHAT are loosely spoken of as national char- ... In taking account of the mental furniture which the early English ..."

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