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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."

ChatGPT

  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. Colin Wilson:

    Knowing more about how and where water exists on present-day Mars is essential to understand what happened to Mars' once-abundant water, and helps our search for habitable environments, possible signs of past life, and organic materials from Mars' earliest days.

  2. William Bottke:

    In a sense, the asteroid belt has been an eyewitness to multiple 'drive-by shootings' from the earliest time in solar system history, by reading the traces left behind, we can use asteroid samplesto tell us who did it, when they did it and how they did it.

  3. Anthony Fauci:

    The way the program is now scheduled, children who are elementary school, 6 to 12, that group of individuals... those individuals will not be able to be vaccinated until their trials are finished, which will likely be at the earliest, the end of this year, more likely the first quarter of 2022.

  4. John Mather:

    We want to know, how did we get here from the Big Bang ? we want to look at those first galaxies growing. There are dark areas of dust skewing our view of those earliest times when the stars are growing, but we can see them with infrared.

  5. Benjamin Netanyahu:

    We are determined to block the Iranian aggression against us at its earliest stages, even if it takes a struggle.

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