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Ahead of time   /əhˈɛd əv taɪm/   Listen
Ahead of time

adverb
1.
Before the usual time or the time expected.  Synonyms: early, too soon.  "The house was completed ahead of time"  Antonym: late.






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"Ahead of time" Quotes from Famous Books



... ahead of time and the hut was crowded with eight hundred men. They were singing when I got in—something about "an old rooster—as you ...
— Your Boys • Gipsy Smith

... aboard the Ohio! This girl has broken quarantine. The health inspectors bottled up the boat at six o'clock last night! That's why I pulled out of Unalaska ahead of time, to avoid any possible delay. Now we'll all be held up when we get to Nome. Great Heavens! do you realize what this means—bringing this ...
— The Spoilers • Rex Beach

... when the hour came for Mr. Crow's party. In fact, everybody was ahead of time. Old Mr. Crow had talked so much about his old friend Major Monkey and the Major's gold-braided uniform that people simply couldn't wait to see the ...
— The Tale of Major Monkey • Arthur Scott Bailey

... least the parent of many exuberant and useful persons. Will power is grown out yonder as one of the crops. She had a will of her own and her eye showed a blue cerulean. Her hair was a bright yellow, lighting up a gloomy room. It had three shades in it, and you never knew ahead of time which shade was going to enrich the day, so that an encounter with her always carried a surprise. For when she arranged that abundance in soft nun-like drooping folds along the side of the head, the quieter ...
— Young Hilda at the Wars • Arthur Gleason

... somewhat with our slumbers, and though eight is an early hour for us, we reached the neighboring house next morning five minutes ahead of time. And though the manner of the elder sister was, as before, austere, that made no difference, for the ...
— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street


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