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Definitions for Earlier
ear·li·er
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Princeton's WordNet
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"
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"
sooner, earlieradverb
comparatives of `soon' or `early'
"Come a little sooner, if you can"; "came earlier than I expected"
in the first place, earlier, in the beginning, to begin with, originallyadverb
before now
"why didn't you tell me in the first place?"
Wiktionary
earlieradverb
previously; before now; sooner
I shall be late because I didn't start earlier.
earlieradjective
occurring previously
I shall be late because I missed the earlier train.
ChatGPT
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.
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Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Earlier' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #1091
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Earlier' in Written Corpus Frequency: #948
Adverbs Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'Earlier' in Adverbs Frequency: #103
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Earlier in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Earlier in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
Examples of Earlier in a Sentence
Earlier we had only one chair for the tables where the customer came alone. But for me, it felt strange, so I thought I'd give them some company.
Markets are focussing on comments from President Trump earlier this morning, the dollar-yen certainly tends to be a little negatively impacted by increasing concerns about a trade war.
This recent report highlights the need to stop shutting down existing capacity. We've seen this pattern happen, the report indicates the number of plants shut down earlier than anticipated, even a couple of years ago.
I keep wondering, could we have found this earlier?
You know that the odds are that a grass fire is going to run through open country here. But they can threaten towns, i know we had the town of Skellytown that was threatened by a fire earlier this year.
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