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Definition of Early bird
1. Noun. A person who arrives early before others do.
2. Noun. A person who gets up very early in the morning.
Definition of Early bird
1. Noun. (idiomatic) A person who wakes early or arrives early, typically before most others. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Early Bird
Literary usage of Early bird
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society (1906)
""The early bird catches the worm " is true here. Therefore, spray while the worms
are tiny and the foliage thin, and the work will count as the "stitch in ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1868)
"In slang language, he may have called himself “an early bird.” But, 1 cannot
think that the term “early bird” can be applied to the nightingale; ..."
3. Incwadi Yami, Or, Twenty Years' Personal Experience in South Africa by Josiah Wright Matthews, Eric Rosenthal (1887)
"THE early bird CATCHES THE WORM.— AN UNEXPECTED RECOVERY.—A DEATH-BED SCENE.
IN connection with this nefarious traffic, this insidious disease I will term ..."
4. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1843)
"The foremost dog is the representative of the early bird, who is proverbially
... No peacock so vain-glorious as the early bird; he deems himself a shining ..."
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