Early word meaning and definition
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Meaning and definition for "early" word
Click here if you Hate scroll, Show all | Too long, show scroll[adv] in good time; "he awoke betimes that morning"
[adv] during an early stage; "early on in her career"
[adjective] at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time; "early morning"; "an early warning"; "early diagnosis"; "an early death"; "took early retirement"; "an early spring"; "early varieties of peas and tomatoes mature before most standard varieties"
[adjective] being or occurring at an early stage of development; "in an early stage"; "early forms of life"; "early man"; "an early computer"
[adjective] (linguistics) of an early stage in the development of a language or literature; "the Early Hebrew alphabetical script is that used mainly from the 11th to the 6th centuries B.C."; "Early Modern English is represented in documents printed from 1476 to 1700"
[adjective] very young; "at an early age"
[adjective] expected in the near future; "look for an early end to the negotiations"
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\Ear"ly\, a. [Compar. {Earlier} ([~e]r"l[i^]*[~e]r); superl. {Earliest}.] [OE. earlich. [root]204. See {Early}, adv.] 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} (Philol.) 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. Syn: Forward; timely; not late; seasonable.
Synonyms for early
advance(a), ahead of time, archaean, archaeozoic, archaic, archeozoic, azoic, baby, beginning(a), crude, earlyish, early on, embryo(a), embryonic, embryotic, future, inchoate, incipient, in embryo, new, novice(a), precocious, previous(p), primaeval, primitive, primordial, rude, too soon, untimely, young
Antonyms: belatedly, late, late, later(a), middle, tardily
See also: first |
Related terms: anterior, away back, backward, before, dated, ere then, foregoing, hitherto, initial, into the past, metachronistic, misdated, of old, old, original, out of season, oversoon, premature, prematurely, retrospective, sometime, some time ago
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Let's analyse "early" as pure text. This string has Five letters in Two syllables and Two vowels (In our algorithm Y is not counted as vowel, but in English language, sometimes it sounds like one). 40% of vowels is 1.4% more then average English word. Written in backwards: YLRAE. Average typing speed for these characters is 1385 milliseconds. [info]
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Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
early: 5 + 1 = 6, reduced: 6 (or 4 if Y is vowel too). and the final result is Six. |
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