Crossword clues for already
already
- "Enough _____!"
- "So soon?"
- "Right now?"
- Question concerning an early arrival
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- Beforehand
- Previously
- Queen snubbed by lay reader unfortunately before
- Even now
- Early moves to screen commercial earlier
- A pound, cash thus far
- A woman has received note by now
- Previously finding almost everything immediately available
- Piece of land surrounding lake initially dug year in advance
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Already \Al*read"y\, adv. [All (OE. al) + ready.]
Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or
future; by this time; previously. ``Joseph was in Egypt
already.''
--Exod. i. 5.
I say unto you, that Elias is come already.
--Matt.
xvii. 12.
Note: It has reference to past time, but may be used for a future past; as, when you shall arrive, the business will be already completed, or will have been already completed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, compound of all + ready (adj.); literally "fully ready." Compare Norwegian, Danish allerede "already." Colloquial use in U.S. as a terminal emphatic (as in enough, already!) is attested from 1903, translating Yiddish shoyn, which is used in same sense. The pattern also is attested in Pennsylvania German and in South African.
Wiktionary
adv. prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
WordNet
adv. prior to a specified or implied time; "she has already graduated" [ant: not yet]
Wikipedia
Already is the fourth album by the British rock band Jesus Jones in 1997. The album followed a working hiatus by the band following the relative failure of 1993's Perverse compared to their international breakthrough album Doubt (1991). Although the band had come up with ideas that they requested to Food Records, the label rejected them before finally accepting the released Already. It was their last album for EMI, and two singles were released from the album, "The Next Big Thing" and "Chemical #1". Already only reached No. 161 in the UK Albums Chart, although lead single "The Next Big Thing" had some radio play reaching No. 49 in the UK Singles Chart. EMI re-issued on the album on 1 March 2003.
Usage examples of "already".
The monstrosities abiding within the smaller man could not molest him or they would certainly already have done so.
That is the fidelity of a woman speaking, for Sier Valence has already said that he has abjured his oaths for the sake of this woman, and she does not deny it.
The terrace next to the side porch was already abloom with freshly planted flowers.
His carriage, with his wife and two daughters already aboard and Cram scowling on the box beside the driver, stood by the front door.
Martemus had already resolved to kick the abomination to the groundafterward .
It is absolutely not an experience not an experience of momentary states, not an experience of self, not an experience of no-self, not an experience of relaxing, not an experience of surrendering: it is the Empty opening or clearing in which all of those experiences come and go, an opening or clearing that, were it not always already perfectly Present, no experiences could arise in the first place.
The general evidence of this serious trouble is already and simply and absolutely overwhelming.
That Abies had taken a knife or whatever was handiest and had already massacred the entire family.
I tasted blood as though I were already drinking it, and I felt the abysmal and desperate emptiness that I always feel before I feast.
Then, blundering about and bellowing like a wounded rhino, he staggered out front and shoveled a big sluiceway in the recently patched ditch bank, allowing almost the entire acequia flow to cascade into his already soggy front vega.
Already a bit bewildered by their flurry of Classical references and Latin maxims, he was lost when Acer and George exchanged a few lines in French, watching out of the corner of their eyes to see if he had understood.
As he studied her sleeping face, he ached inside to stop the car and take hold of her, to whisper her name against her mouth, to tell her how much he loved her, how much he wanted her, so much that already his body-He cursed under his breath, reminding himself that he was closer now to forty than to twenty and that the turbulent, uncontrollable reaction of his body to the merest thought of touching her was the reaction of an immature boy, not an adult man.
Nest stood ran almost due south, it would be quicker to continue along it and cross the Acis lower down than to retrace the steps Dorcas and I had already taken and go back to the foot of the postern wall of Acies Castle.
She now first felt a sensation to which she had been before a stranger, and which, when she had leisure to reflect on it, began to acquaint her with some secrets, which the reader, if he doth not already guess them, will know in due time.
Here, reader, it may be necessary to acquaint thee with some matters, which, if thou dost know already, thou art wiser than I take thee to be.