Earlier - Definition
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]