early
early - adjective
- at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time
- being or occurring at an early stage of development
- of an early stage in the development of a language or literature
- belonging to the distant past
- very young
- expected in the near future
early - adverb
- during an early stage
- before the usual time or the time expected
- in good time
early - thesaurus