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adjective (earli, er)
- At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.
- At eleven, we went for an lunch.
- She began reading at an age.
- His mother suffered an death.
- arrive, Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on-time.
- You're today! I don't usually see you before nine o'clock.
- The guests sipped their punch and avoided each other's eyes.
- Near the start or beginning.
- ''The play "Two Gentlemen of Verona" is one of Shakespeare's works.
adverb (earli, er)
- At a time before expected; sooner than usual.
- ''We finished the project an hour sooner than scheduled, so we left .
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| Eddy |
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proper noun
- (given name, male), diminutive of Edward.
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| Eden |
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proper noun
- (biblical) A garden built by God as the home for Adam and Eve; sometimes identified as part of Mesopotamia
- (context, by extension) A paradise on Earth; a state of innocence
- Various place names
- An English surname, probably derived from a placename.
- (given name, female)
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| Edinburgh |
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proper noun
- The capital of Scotland.
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| Edison |
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proper noun
- An English patronymic or metronymic surname derived from Eade
- w:Thomas edison, Thomas Edison, American inventor and businessman
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| Edward |
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proper noun
- (given name, male)
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| Edwards |
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proper noun
- an English and Welsh patronymic surname from the given name Edward
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| Einstein |
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proper noun (plural Einsteins)
- w:Albert Einstein, Albert Einstein, the world-famous 20th Century theoretical physicist who developed the theory of relativity.
- 1919 November 10, "LIGHTS ALL ASKEW IN THE HEAVENS", New York Times
- :Men of Science More or Less Agog Over Results of Eclipse Observations.
- :EINSTEIN THEORY TRIUMPHS
- :Stars Not Where They Seemed or Were Calculated to be, but Nobody Need Worry.
- :A BOOK FOR 12 WISE MEN
- :No More in All the World Could Comprehend it, Said When His Daring Publishers Accepted it.
- 1977, James Taylor, "Secret O" Life", JT, Columbia Records
- : said he could never understand it all / Planets spinning through space
- 1993, Steve Martin, Picasso at the Lapin Agile
- :Gaston: Picasso, , Schmendiman. Somehow it doesn't have a ring.
- A person who is considered to be very intelligent.
- Can you believe he's just a kindergartener? It looks like they've got an in the family.
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| Elgar |
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proper noun
- A male given name.
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| Eliot |
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proper noun
- An English and Scottish surname, variant of Elliott.
- (given name, male), variant of Elliott.
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| Elizabeth |
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proper noun
- (given name, female, from Hebrew, )
- (context, Biblical character) The mother of John the Baptist.
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| Elliott |
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proper noun
- A surname.
- (given name, male) today representing transferred use of the surname.
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| Ellis |
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proper noun
- an English and Welsh surname derived from the given name Elis (Elijah)
- an English and Welsh given name derived from the surname
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| Emerson |
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proper noun
- an English surname
- (given name, male) derived from the surname
- w:Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson American writer
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| Emmanuel |
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proper noun
- (given name, male) of Biblical origin.
- The prophesized name of the Messiah in the Old Testament.
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| emmet |
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noun
- (archaic) An ant
- 1789: Once a dream did weave a shade / O'er my angel-guarded bed / That an lost its way / Where on grass methought I lay. - William Blake, Songs of Innocence
- 1993: We are scurrying emmets or pismires with our sad little comedies. " Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man in Deptford
- (Cornish dialect) A tourist
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| Epicurus |
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proper noun
- An ancient Greek philosopher, founder of the movement commonly known as Epicureanism.
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| Erasmus |
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proper noun
- w:Desiderius Erasmus, Desiderius Erasmus, a Dutch humanist and theologian
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| espy |
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verb to espy
- To catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; to discover, as a distant object partly concealed, or not obvious to notice; to see at a glance; to discern unexpectedly; to spy; as, to espy land; to espy a man in a crowd.
- To inspect narrowly; to examine and keep watch upon; to watch; to observe.
- To look or search narrowly; to look about; to watch; to take notice; to spy.
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| Essex |
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proper noun
- A maritime county of England bordered by the North Sea, Suffolk, Hertfordshire and Middlesex, and separated from Kent by the Thames estuary.
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| Eugene |
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proper noun - (given name, male, , )
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| Euripides |
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proper noun
- A Greek tragedian (c. 480"406 BCE); Euripides was the last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens.
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| Evans |
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proper noun
- a Welsh patronymic surname derived from the given name Evan (or Ifan in Welsh)
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| Eve |
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proper noun
- According to the Bible and Qur'an, the first woman and mother of the human race; Adam's wife.
- (given name, female, from Hebrew, ).
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| Evelyn |
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proper noun
- (given name, female).
- A surname derived from the female given name.
- (given name, male), transferred use of the surname.
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| Everett |
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proper noun
- An English surname derived from an Old English personal name Everard, eofor "boar" + heard "hardy, brave,strong".
- (given name, male, , ) transferred from the surname
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| evert |
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verb
- (transitive) To turn inside out.
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| Ezekiel |
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proper noun
- A book of the Old Testament of the Bible.
- (given name, male, ) A male first name.
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