Definitions for Earlier
ear·li·er

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.0 / 1 vote

1. earlier, earliestadverb

   (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"

2. earlier, beforeadverb

   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"

3. sooner, earlieradverb

   comparatives of `soon' or `early'

   "Come a little sooner, if you can"; "came earlier than I expected"

4. in the first place, earlier, in the beginning, to begin with, originallyadverb

   before now

   "why didn't you tell me in the first place?"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. earlieradverb

   previously; before now; sooner

   I shall be late because I didn't start earlier.

2. earlieradjective

   occurring previously

   I shall be late because I missed the earlier train.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. earlier

   Earlier refers to a point in time before the present or before the time under consideration. It could also mean preceding in rank, precedence, order, or importance.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Earlier' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1091

2. Written Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Earlier' in Written Corpus Frequency: #948

3. Adverbs Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'Earlier' in Adverbs Frequency: #103

How to pronounce Earlier?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say Earlier in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Earlier in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Earlier in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of Earlier in a Sentence

1. Bucky Hellwig:

   With the stronger-than-anticipated employment report, there's discussion the Fed might move earlier rather than later ... so we've seen the financial sector do well and the interest rate-sensitive utilities sector do poorly.

2. Justice Department:

   As alleged in the indictment, however, BitConnect operated as a Ponzi scheme by paying earlier BitConnect investors with money from later investors.

3. Dean Sherzai:

   This is important because the earlier you detect this disease.

4. Tommy Tuberville:

   You're going to see downfall of young girls getting into sports at an earlier age, they're not going to have the opportunities.

5. Andrea Shaw:

   Had I been 5 minutes later or 5 minutes earlier they might now have crossed paths.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=Earlier
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Earlier
3. ^ ChatGPT
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