to get up early
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1.0
- phrasal verb
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levantarse temprano
- If you get up early, you can enjoy a quiet breakfast before everyone else wakes up.
OK, So sleep great, get up early, don't eat till lunch.
- OK, So sleep great, get up early, don't eat till lunch.
- I've just started getting up earlier for social reasons.
- Ben, I want to thank you very much for getting up early and doing this interview.
- How can people become a morning person or learn to get up early more easily and more regularly?
- And then we went and had a great dinner at one of the local places, checked into our, our hotel, stayed the night, got up early the next morning.
- Well, I didn't, I guess I, I'm just bad at this, you know, because I can't get up early.
- But I just get up early now and write, I get up before my son gets up and, and get to work.
- I would make me get up earlier and do the damn workout.
Examples
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The next morning, he got up early and went to work.
Fiction book (1998) -
The next morning, I got up early and drove over to Mississippi College.
Fiction book (1997) -
But I just get up early now and write, I get up before my son gets up and, and get to work.
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Ben, I want to thank you very much for getting up early and doing this interview.
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You gotta get up earlier in the morning.
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You have to get up early.
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I find I can get a lot done if I get up early in the morning.
Fiction book (2000) -
On our first morning at her place, she got up early to fix breakfast.
Fiction book (1996) -
"We should go to sleep and get up early," she suggested.
Fiction book (1995) -
They got up early today.
Synonyms
3
1.0
To get out of bed early in the morning
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9.1
Awake and active very early in the morning
Wake up very early in the morning, often at sunrise
Get up very early at sunrise
Get up very early before sunrise
Antonyms
How Early
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to rise from bed before the usual time' is directly and compositionally derivable from the constituents: 'get' + 'up' forms the common phrasal verb meaning 'rise/out of bed' and 'early' clearly specifies an earlier-than-usual time. This is a transparent, cross-linguistically common construction (motion/state change + temporal modifier), so a B1 learner who knows the words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Get up early comes from a simple picture: you get up, leaving the bed and covers sooner than most people. So, it means 'to rise from bed before the usual time'.