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earlier 音標拼音: ['ɚliɚ] 更早的 更早的 earlier adv 1: 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" [ synonym: { earlier}, { before}] 2: comparatives of ` soon' or ` early'; " Come a little sooner, if you can"; " came earlier than I expected" [ synonym: { sooner}, { earlier}] 3: before now; " why didn' t you tell me in the first place?" [ synonym: { in the first place}, { earlier}, { in the beginning}, { to begin with}, { originally}] adj 1: ( 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" [ synonym: { earlier}, { earliest}] earlier \ earlier\ adj. occurring at a prior time; as, on earlier occasions. [ WordNet 1. 5]
Early \ Ear" ly\, a. [ Compar. { Earlier} ([~ e] r" l[ i^]*[~ e] r); superl. { Earliest}.] [ OE. earlich. [ root] 204. See { Early}, adv.] 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster] Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] The doorsteps and threshold with the early grass springing up about them. -- Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Coming in the first part of a period of time, or among the first of successive acts, events, etc. [ 1913 Webster] Seen in life' s early morning sky. -- Keble. [ 1913 Webster] The forms of its earlier manhood. -- Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster] The earliest poem he composed was in his seventeenth summer. -- J. C. Shairp. [ 1913 Webster] { Early English} ( Philol.) See the Note under { English}. { Early English architecture}, the first of the pointed or Gothic styles used in England, succeeding the Norman style in the 12th and 13th centuries. Syn: Forward; timely; not late; seasonable. [ 1913 Webster] 60 Moby Thesaurus words for " earlier": aforetime, already, antecedent, anterior, anticipatory, as yet, before, before all, before now, beforehand, beforetime, ci- devant, down, early, elder, ere, ere then, erenow, erewhile, erst, erstwhile, first, fore, foregoing, former, formerly, heretofore, historically, hitherto, in the past, in times past, inferior, lower, lowest, nether, older, once, only yesterday, or ever, preceding, precurrent, preexistent, prehistorically, previous, previously, prime, prior, priorly, recently, senior, so far, sooner, subjacent, then, theretofore, thus far, under, whilom, yesterday, yet |
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