Early - Simple English Wikipedia

# Early

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Early

Early has two main meanings:

1. At or near the beginning of a specific time:

  It was early in the afternoon (it was near the beginning of the afternoon)
  He lived there in the early '80s (he lived there at the beginning of the 1980s, perhaps in 1982)
  The language of the early Christian church was Greek (... at the beginning of the Christian church ...)

2. Before a planned / usual time:

  We expected him to come at 8 o'clock, but he was early (he came before 8 o'clock, the planned time)
  She gets up early in the morning (she gets up before people usually get up)
  She learned to read very early (she learned to read before children usually learn to read)

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