Usually means: Before the expected or usual time.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word early:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Early, early: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. early, early: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. early: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. early: Collins English Dictionary
  5. early: Vocabulary.com
  6. Early, early: Wordnik
  7. early: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Early, early: Wiktionary
  9. early: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. early: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. early: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Early, early: Dictionary.com
  13. early: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. early: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Early (album), Early (name), Early: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Early: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. early: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. early: Rhymezone
  19. early: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. early: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. early: Free Dictionary
  22. early: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Early: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. early: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. early: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. early: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. early: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. EARLY: Acronym Finder
  3. early: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. early: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Early, early: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms: Joint Acronyms and Abbreviations (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.
adjective:  Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.
adjective:  Near the start or beginning.
adjective:  Near the start of the day.
adjective:  Having begun to occur; in its early stages.
adjective:  (astronomy) Of a star or class of stars, hotter than the sun.
noun:  (informal) A shift (scheduled work period) that takes place early in the day.
adverb:  At a time before expected; sooner than usual.
adverb:  Soon; in good time; seasonably.
noun:  A surname.

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