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.

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. Chief Executive Doug McMillon:

   Our hearts go out to the family of Tom Coughlin, who passed away earlier today. Like me, many of you worked with Tom Coughlin over his more than 26 years with the company, i know firsthand how much he loved our associates and this company.

2. Walker Smith:

   There's low-hanging fruit, we could save lives far earlier than we have self-driving cars.

3. Mahdi Fallah:

   However, this risk level is reached at different ages for women from different racial/ethnic groups, black women tend to reach this risk level of 0.329% earlier, at age 42. White women tend to reach it at age 51, American Indian or Alaska Native and Hispanic women at age 57 years, and Asian or Pacific Islander women later, at age 61.

4. Mike Ryan:

   We believe, let me be very cautious here, we believe we are probably detecting in excess of 75% of cases - we may be missing up to a quarter of cases, we must get earlier detection of cases, have more exhaustive identification of contacts.

5. Sheldon McFarlane:

   At no time was I worried he was going to hit the ground without a parachute, but given the circumstances and where we were I thought it would be better to get him under parachute earlier than later, i managed to catch him on my second attempt and deploy his parachute.

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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