early|earlier|earliest in English

adjective

[ear·ly || 'ɜːlɪ]

before the scheduled time

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1. The earliest Bryozoans are from the Early Ordovician

2. An Antedating is a word that is earlier than the earliest example we currently know.

3. Antedating (lexicography), finding attested use of a word or phrase earlier than the previous earliest known use Antedated contract, takes effect earlier than its signing date; Antedated cheque, dated earlier than its date of signing; See also

4. Thus the Panamalai temple painted fragment , mentioned earlier , would alone be the earliest Pallava painting extant as found so far .

5. Our earliest industries centred around fisheries and shipbuilding, and many early agricultural operations relied on draining coastal marshes.

6. The earliest origins of the Backfire were in the earlier Tu-22 Blinder, a Russian analogue to the US B-58 Hustler

7. The earliest surviving Arabic Astrolabe treatises are from the seventh and eighth centuries and are often translations of earlier Greek or Syriac texts

8. Antonyms for Belatedly include beforehand, early, inopportunely, precociously, prematurely, unseasonably, before, already, earlier and previously

9. 6500 to 3800 BC) is the earliest known period on the alluvial plain, although it is likely earlier periods exist obscured under the alluvium.

10. Kids Definition of Beforehand : at an earlier or previous time They decided Beforehand to leave early.

11. Reseed these spots in early spring, or be prepared to apply Crabgrass control earlier than for …

12. Algonquins a group of linguistically related Indian tribes, the earliest inhabitants of North America; they were hunters, fishermen, and early farmers

13. The earliest Arrowheads may have been the Jack's Reef and Raccoon Notched types associated with the early Late Woodland Intrusive Mound Culture

14. The earliest age that you can draw your pension under Actuarially Reduced Early Retirement (ARER) is known as the minimum pension age

15. Antecedency - preceding in time antecedence, anteriority, precedence, precedency, priority earliness - quality of coming early or earlier in time

16. Commentators erudite in Arabic explained the allusions, and perhaps most importantly, explained which Quranic verses had been revealed early in Muhammad's prophetic career, as being appropriate to the very earliest Muslim community, and which had been revealed later, canceling out or "abrogating" (nāsikh) the earlier text (mansūkh).

17. The earliest cell phones, the earliest personal computers were invented in the 1970s.

18. Early drilled crops have a greater and earlier nutrient demand and their root systems can cope better, he said.

19. Bands from the early 1990s, such as Slint or, earlier, Talk Talk, were later recognized as influential on post-rock.

20. The earliest wireless data network is called "packet radio" network, and was sponsored by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in the early 1970s.

21. The earliest Brontothere, Eotitanops, was small and hornless and not much different from other early perissodactyls, but more specialized species of Brontotheres quickly evolved

22. 9 The British coal miners mentioned earlier used canaries to provide an early warning of the presence of poisonous gas.

23. One of the earliest Buttonholers

24. The earliest elaborately decorated Bookbindings

25. He came earliest of all.