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EARLY BIRD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does early bird mean? 

EARLY BIRD (noun)
  The noun EARLY BIRD has 2 senses:

1. a person who arrives early before others doplay

2. a person who gets up very early in the morningplay

  Familiarity information: EARLY BIRD used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EARLY BIRD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who arrives early before others do

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("early bird" is a kind of...):

arrival; arriver; comer (someone who arrives (or has arrived))


Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who gets up very early in the morning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("early bird" is a kind of...):

riser (a person who rises (especially from bed))


 Context examples 


Bright and early, to be sure; and it's the early bird, as the saying goes, that gets the rations.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)



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