Definitions for earliest
ear·li·est

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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."

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

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

Anagrams for earliest »

1. ateliers

2. Aleister

3. realties

4. e-tailers

How to pronounce earliest?

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 earliest in sign language?

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. Finance Minister Michael Noonan:

   This is not being dictated by any political agenda. It looks now like the earliest opportunity will be November, December, and I'm not going to rush it. I don't need to sell any bit of AIB before the election.

2. Jacqueline Moline:

   Cancer has a latency period. The earliest cancers are the blood cancers. And then you see solid tumors, so the fact that we're seeing tumors on the uptick is not a surprise at all.

3. Stephen Badsey:

   NATO is indicating it wants strategic communications to be better placed to detect information threats at the earliest stage.

4. Deputy Prime Minister Wisanu Krue-ngam:

   I told the U.S. charge d'affaires today elections will take place at the earliest in February 2016, but if we have to have a referendum, polls could be delayed by a further three months.

5. Lindsay Zanno:

   As one of the earliest and oldest crocodylomorphs, Carnufex was a far cry from living crocodiles. It was an agile, terrestrial predator that hunted on land, carnufex predates the group that living crocodiles belong to.

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