Definitions for Early

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Early ear·ly

Spelling: [ur-lee]

IPA: /ˈɜr li/

Early is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 75 anagrams from letters in Early (aelry).

Definitions for Early

noun

1. a fruit or vegetable that appears before most others of its type.
2. Jubal Anderson [joo-buh l] /ˈdʒu bəl/ (Show IPA), 1816–94, Confederate general in the U.S. Civil War.

Idioms

1. early on, with but little time elapsed; early in the course of a process, project, etc.; early in the game.

adverb

1. in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.:
2. in the early part of the morning:
3. before the usual or appointed time; ahead of time:
4. far back in time:

adjective

1. occurring in the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.:
2. occurring before the usual or appointed time:
3. belonging to a period far back in time:
4. occurring in the near future:
5. (of a fruit or vegetable) appearing or maturing before most others of its type:

Origin of Early

before 950; Middle English erlich (adj.), erliche (adv.), Old English ǣrlīc, ǣrlīce, mutated variant of ārlīc, ārlīce, equivalent to ār- early (positive of ǣr ere) + l

Examples for Early

When cities started adding chlorine to their water supplies, in the early 1900s, it set off public outcry.

early were hammers ringing on anvils in the Dragon Court, and all was activity.

early on, the sexual protagonist complains that her Molson-drinking husband is pretty much an incompetent Neanderthal.

He early ascertained his limitations with respect to New York and its people.

Again he recurred to his early years, and talked fondly of his wife and children.

He said "It is Light" and he used the rays of the early sun to gather food for his family.

Detectives with a fugitive task force caught up with Polanco and a friend on a Bronx street in the early afternoon.

The fame of the Nile valley must have spread at an early date.

At first—it was the early stages of reporting—I was amused at having been so crassly underestimated.

It’s cool because Trenchmouth opened for Green Day in the early ‘90s in Wisconsin.