early

/ˈəːli/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈəːli/

early

Syllables: 2 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Schwa vowel
Ending: Final y vowel sound

ear - ly -> early

Myanmar meaning

(adj) စောသော။ အဦးအစ။ စောစောပိုင်း၊ အစပိုင်း။ earlier, earliest (adv) စောစော

Full entry

early /'ɜ:li/ adj (-ier , -iest )

၁။ စောသော။ early potatoes (ie ones that are ready to eat early in the season) ❍ an early breakfast (eg at 5 am) ❍ an early riser. Compare LATE adj ၁
၂။ အဦးအစ။ the early morning နံနက်စောစော။ ❍ in early spring ❍ He's in his early twenties . သူဟာအသက် ၂၀ သာသာပဲရှိသေးတယ်။ ❍ one of Mozart's early works မိုးဇက်၏ ငယ်၊ နုစဉ်က လက်ရာ။ ❍ in the early days of space exploration. အာကာသ စူးစမ်းရှာဖွေမှု ခေတ်ဦးတွင်။ Compare LATE adj ၂
adv
၁။ စောစော။ စောပြီး။ I got up early today. ❍ The bus arrived five minutes early. Compare LATE adv ၁
၂။ စောစောပိုင်း။ အစပိုင်း။ Two players were injured earlier in the season. ❍ I knew quite early (on) in the course that I wasn't going to enjoy it. Compare LATE adv ၂ earliness n [U]
❏ at your earliest convenience [IDM ] (fml esp commerce ) ဆောလျင်စွာ။ ဖြစ်နိုင်သမျှ အစောဆုံး။ Please telephone at your earliest convenience.
❏ an early bird [IDM ] (joc ) စောစောရောက်လာသူ၊ စောစောထသူ စသည်။ You're an early bird this morning!
❏ early closing n [U] (Brit ) တစ်ပတ်တစ်ရက် ညနေပိုင်း စောစောဆိုင်ပိတ်သော ထုံးစံ။ It's early closing (day) today.
❏ early days (yet) [IDM ] (esp Brit ) (ခန့်မှန်း ပြောဆိုရန်) အချိန်စောလွန်းသေးသည်။ I'm not sure if our book will be a success—it's early days yet.
❏ the early hours [IDM ] သန်းခေါင်ကျော်။ သန်းလွဲ။ They were dancing till the early hours. See also THE SMALL HOURS
❏ early warning n [U, sing] (အန္တရာယ်ကို) ကြိုတင် သတိပေးချက်။ provide early warning of attack ❍ a famine early warning system ❍ an early warning of heart disease.

More examples

In the early 1980s, several thousand jobs were lost.
The temperature drops to below freezing in the early evening.
The plants flower in early spring.
From an early age, Chaplin believed in his talents.
Memories of my early childhood
Julia is in her early thirties.
The project is still in its very early stages.
It is too early to predict whether the unemployment rate has peaked.
[in the early days] : We didn’t think much about the environment in those early days.
In the early Middle Ages
Spring was unusually early that year.
Let’s have an early lunch and then go to the cinema.
Is it too early to phone them?
My train was ten minutes early.
[early for] : You’re a little early for the party.
The early settlers used to heat their cabins with coal.
Early editions of the novel
Early peaches/roses

Synonyms

near the beginning, in the early hours, early on, a bit previous, aboriginal, advanced, ahead of schedule, ahead of time, ancient, anon, antecedent, antediluvian, anticipative, anticipatory, antiquated, as soon as possible, at once, at the beginning, before appointed time, before long, before time, beforehand, betimes, brand-new, briefly, bright and early, budding, direct, directly, early bird, ere long, far ahead, first, fresh, freshly, hasty, immature, immediate, immediately, in a jiffy, in advance, in an instant, in good time, in no time, in the bud, in time, initial, instantaneously, instantly, matinal, new, newly, now, on short notice, on the dot, original, overearly, oversoon, preceding, precipitant, precocious, preexistent, premature, prematurely, premier, presently, presto, prevenient, previous, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primitively, primordial, prior, pristine, proleptical, prompt, promptly, pronto, proximately, punctual, quick, raw, recent, recently, right away, seasonable, seasonably, shortly, soon, speedy, straightaway, summarily, thereon, thereupon, timely, too soon, unanticipated, undeveloped, unexpected, unexpectedly, untimely, with time to spare, without delay, young

Antonyms

future, late, later, old, tardy, worn