Thesaurus

Synonyms for Early include:

aboriginal, adolescent, advance, ago, agone, ancient, approaching, archaean, archaeozoic, archaic, archean, archeozoic, archetypal, archetypical, azoic, basic, beforehand, boyish, boylike, bygone, bypast, childlike, childly, chivalric, coming, crude, departed, earlier, earliest, early, earlyish, eldest, embryonic, embryotic, emerging, erstwhile, first, first-year, firstborn, five-year-old, foregone, formative, former, forthcoming, four-year-old, freshman, front, future, future day, girlish, gone, historic, historical, immature, in store, inchoate, incipient, incoming, infantile, initial, introductory, junior, knightly, last, late, little, medieval, new, newborn, noncurrent, Old, olden, one-year-old, onetime, original, other, outgoing, past, preadolescent, precocious, prehistoric, prehistorical, premature, premier, premiere, preteen, previous, primaeval, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primordial, prospective, proterozoic, proto, prototypal, prototypic, prototypical, prox, proximo, puppyish, puppylike, quondam, recent, rising, rude, schoolboyish, schoolgirlish, small, sometime, teen, teenage, teenaged, tender, then, three-year-old, two-year-old, ult, ultimo, untimely, upcoming, vernal, wee, young, youngish, youthful

early is a ADJ.

ahead of time, betimes, early, early on, too soon

early is a ADV.