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Earliest   /ˈərliəst/   Listen
Earliest

adjective
1.
(comparative and superlative of 'early') more early than; most early.  Synonym: earlier.  "His earlier work reflects the influence of his teacher" , "Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera"
adverb
1.
With the least delay.  Synonym: soonest.


Early

adjective
(compar. earlier; superl. earliest)
1.
At or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time.  "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"  Antonyms: late, middle.
2.
Being or occurring at an early stage of development.  "Early forms of life" , "Early man" , "An early computer"  Antonym: late.
3.
Belonging to the distant past.  Synonyms: former, other.  "Former generations" , "In other times"
4.
Very young.
5.
Of an early stage in the development of a language or literature.  "Early Modern English is represented in documents printed from 1476 to 1700"  Antonyms: late, middle.
6.
Expected in the near future.



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"Earliest" Quotes from Famous Books



... 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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