Early: adjective -
designating, belonging to, existing or occurring close to the beginning of a time
period, e.g. morning, day, evening, etc.; belonging to, designating, or
relating to the initial phase of an epoch, personal development, history of a
people, or the world etc.; ancient; at the beginning in serial order; happening
before it is too late; arriving or occurring before the due time; former,
foremost, first in time.
‘Unable to sleep, Gloria spent the early hours watching the
sun rise blood red from a field of pinks, oranges, flame and gold.’
‘Harold was so nervous about being late for his interview
that he turned up an hour early and had to kill time in a local café, drinking
copious amounts of coffee.’
Pic: Staithes, North Yorkshire.
