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adverbcomparatives of `soon' or `early'
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adjective(comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early
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adverbearlier in time; previously
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adverbbefore now
Examples of earlier
- "came earlier than I expected"
- "a fashion popular in earlier times"
- "his earlier work reflects the influence of his teacher"
- "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"