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Definition of Earliest
1. Adverb. With the least delay. "The soonest I can arrive is 3 P.M."
2. Adjective. (comparative and superlative of 'early') more early than; most early. "Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera"
Definition of Earliest
1. Adjective. (superlative of early) ¹
2. Adverb. (superlative of early) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Earliest
1. early [adv] - See also: early
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earliest
Literary usage of Earliest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1885)
"It is a good rule in considering the derivation of the name of a place, to begin
by strictly observing the earliest form in which the name occurs, ..."
2. The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1921)
"OUR earliest ANCESTORS WE know very little about the first "true" men. We have
never seen their pictures. In the deepest layer of clay of an ancient soil we ..."
3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1903)
"In the Atharva-veda, the Charaka and the Susruta, occur the earliest references
to therapeutical and chemical knowledge, as well as to pharmaceutical ..."
4. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1901)
"THE earliest SEMITES. THE earliest history of Babylonia at present attainable
presents us with a more or less continuous struggle between three or four ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1858)
"Walpole's Speech, reported in Times, June 3. xp [From the earliest times the ...
[The earliest edition in the British Museum, which seems to be the first, ..."
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