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earlier

adj
/ˈɝliɚ/US/ˈɜː.lɪə/UK

Definitions

  1. comparative form of early

    comparative form of early: more early

  2. occurring previously

    • I shall be late because I missed the earlier train.
    • I'd seen earlier (in the day).

  3. previously

    previously; before now; sooner

    • From what I vaguely saw earlier this morning, when I had just woken up and was tidying my bed, a tall, bulky person left an unfamiliar box at my front door.
    • I shall be late because I didn't start earlier.
    • They were looking for some measuring equipment they had placed in the ice earlier.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at earlier. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at earlier. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at earlier

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA