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adjective

earliest adj. Preceding all others in time.

Synonyms: premier, premiere.

Early adj. (compar. earlier; superl. earliest)

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." "The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass springing up about them."

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." "The forms of its earlier manhood." "The earliest poem he composed was in his seventeenth summer."

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.

Synonyms: Forward; timely; not late; seasonable.

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... tickets. The family demurred. Were they ready now to give up Plymouth? They would lose time in going there. Solomon John, too, suggested it would be better, chronologically, to visit Plymouth on their return from Egypt, after they had seen the earliest things. ...

— The Last of the Peterkins - With Others of Their Kin • Lucretia P. Hale

... heard to pronounce them the most unruly class she had ever attempted to instruct. Therefore her sympathies were with the retreating sophomores, and with set lips and righteous indignation in her eye, she resolved to lay the matter before Miss Thompson, at the earliest opportunity. ...

— Grace Harlowe's Sophomore Year at High School • Jessie Graham Flower

... you that Patricia and I have been intimate companions, since our earliest childhood. I can't remember when I have not thought her superior to any other woman, and I have always believed, as I now believe, that deep down in her inmost heart she loves me quite as well as I love her. There was an unfortunate circumstance, ...

— The Last Woman • Ross Beeckman

... "I took the earliest opportunity of speaking to him concerning Frederic: he promised to make some arrangement for the boy's advantage, and he fulfilled his promise. He got him transferred to the 'Albatross,' Captain Hill, a kind, gentlemanly ...

— The World of Waters - A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea • Mrs. David Osborne

... the Yukon that for years it was known through the settlements as Densmore's Mountain. In 1885 Lieutenant Henry C. Allen, U.S.A., made a sketch of the range from his skin boat on the Tanana River, a hundred and fifty miles away, which is the earliest known picture of McKinley. ...

— The Book of the National Parks • Robert Sterling Yard

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