Definition of Early

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Definition of Early

Early

Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early.

In advance of the usual or appointed time; in good season; prior in time; among or near the first; -- opposed to late; as, the early bird; an early spring; early fruit.

Coming in the first part of a period of time, or among the first of successive acts, events, etc.

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Early Quotations

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
Maya Angelou

It gets late early out there.
Yogi Berra

It's always too early to quit.
Norman Vincent Peale

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
Groucho Marx

No man goes before his time - unless the boss leaves early.
Groucho Marx

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Ogden Nash

Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?
Ogden Nash

Genius always finds itself a century too early.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Early Translations

early in Afrikaans is vroeg, vroegtydig
early in Danish is tidlig, tidligt
early in Dutch is vroeg, pril, vroegtijdig
early in Finnish is aikaisin, aikainen
early in Latin is mane
early in Norwegian is tidlig
early in Portuguese is cedo
early in Spanish is temprano
early in Swedish is tidig

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