Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Early

Early: adjective -designating, belonging to, existing or occurring close to the beginning of a timeperiod, e.g. morning, day, evening, etc.; belonging to, designating, orrelating to the initial phase of an epoch, personal development, history of apeople, or the world etc.; ancient; at the beginning in serial order; happeningbefore it is too late; arriving or occurring before the due time; former,foremost, first in time.
'Unable to sleep, Gloria spent the early hours watching thesun rise blood red from a field of pinks, oranges, flame and gold.'
'Harold was so nervous about being late for his interviewthat he turned up an hour early and had to kill time in a local café, drinkingcopious amounts of coffee.'
Pic: Staithes, North Yorkshire.