Meaning

• Adj

  1. At a time in advance of the usual or expected event.
  2. Arriving a time before expected; sooner than on time.
  3. Near the start or beginning.
  4. Near the start of the day.
  5. Having begun to occur; in its early stages.
  6. Of a star or class of stars, hotter than the sun.

• Noun
• Adv