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Meaning of earlier

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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" [syn:
             {earlier}, {before}]
      2: comparatives of `soon' or `early'; "Come a little sooner, if
         you can"; "came earlier than I expected" [syn: {sooner},
         {earlier}]
      3: before now; "why didn't you tell me in the first place?"
         [syn: {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" [syn:
             {earlier}, {earliest}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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