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Princeton's WordNet

  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. soonest, earliestadverb

    with the least delay

    "the soonest I can arrive is 3 P.M."

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  1. earliest

    Earliest refers to the thing or event happening before all others or being the first in a series, sequence, or time. It is the superlative form of 'early', used when comparing three or more situations, events, or occurrences.

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  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'EARLIEST' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4802

Anagrams for EARLIEST »

  1. realties

  2. Aleister

  3. ateliers

  4. e-tailers

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of EARLIEST in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of EARLIEST in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of EARLIEST in a Sentence

  1. Di Vincenzo:

    We have a nearly complete human fossil skeleton to describe and study in detail. It is a dream, his morphology offers a rare glimpse on the earliest phase of the evolutionary history of Neanderthals and on one of the most crucial events in human evolution. He can help us better understand when — and, in particular, how — Neanderthals evolved.

  2. Jochen Brocks:

    Scientists have been fighting for more than 75 years over what Dickinsonia and other bizarre fossils of the Ediacaran Biota were : giant single-celled amoeba, lichen, failed experiments of evolution or the earliest animals on Earth, the fossil fat now confirms Dickinsonia as the oldest known animal fossil.

  3. John Grant:

    They're now not going to be in position to make an announcement until 2020 at the earliest, that gives Lion Air a huge head start.

  4. Stephanie Melillo:

    Until now, we had a big gap between the earliest-known human ancestors, which are about six million years old, and species like' Lucy,' which are two to three million years old. One of the most exciting aspects of this discovery is how it bridges the morphological space between these two groups.

  5. Ruud Dobber:

    This is promising news for the 30 million people living with type-2 diabetes in the United States, as heart failure is one of the earliest cardiovascular complications for them, before heart attack or stroke.

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