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English Dictionary: earlier by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
earlier
adv
  1. earlier in time; previously; "I had known her before"; "as I said before"; "he called me the day before but your call had come even earlier"; "her parents had died four years earlier"; "I mentioned that problem earlier"
    Synonym(s): earlier, before
  2. comparatives of `soon' or `early'; "Come a little sooner, if you can"; "came earlier than I expected"
    Synonym(s): sooner, earlier
  3. before now; "why didn't you tell me in the first place?"
    Synonym(s): in the first place, earlier, in the beginning, to begin with, originally
adj
  1. (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early; "a fashion popular in earlier times"; "his earlier work reflects the influence of his teacher"; "Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera"
    Synonym(s): earlier, earliest
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Early \Ear"ly\, a. [Compar. {Earlier} ([etil]r"l[icr]*[etil]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.
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