earliest
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- adjective
- /ˈɜrliəst/
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el más temprano
- Earliest evidence for human habitation at the site goes back to the first millennium B.C. and continues up to between A.D. 600-1000.
Let's talk about the earliest signs of breast cancer.
- Let's talk about the earliest signs of breast cancer.
- So that's really where you see the earliest version of that.
- But that begins to break down in the earliest stages of Alzheimer's.
- That's why I was earliest on Twitter and Facebook.
- This is one of the earliest tombstones known from from Britain.
- So first meaning left most earliest in the run.
- Grifters and gadflies were very often the earliest people on the coronavirus.
- You were in the earliest, earliest, earliest, earliest.
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Let's talk about the earliest signs of breast cancer.
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Earliest electric fans appeared in the early 1880s. Marine Propeller (Irvine-Ayrshire) Ships - electricity - thrust.
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All this looks like the earliest example I think that we know.
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It's history from the earliest moments to now.
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This was one of the earliest pieces of plastic surgery.
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So that's really where you see the earliest version of that.
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This is one of the earliest stories about the ancient Celts.
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This is one of the earliest tombstones known from from Britain.
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But what are some of your earliest, most formative memories from your childhood?
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The earliest record of the language dates back over a thousand years.
Synonyms
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Coming before all others in order, time, or importance
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Near the beginning of a period, for example childhood
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Happening at the start of something
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Etymology
Earliest is the superlative form of early, where early originally meant 'before' or 'first'. That's why earliest describes something that happens 'before all others' or is 'first in time'.