Already Definition

ôl-rĕdē
adverb
By this or a specified time.
The children were already asleep when we got home.
American Heritage
By or before the given or implied time.
Webster's New World
Even now or even then.
Already two days late.
Webster's New World
Used as an intensive.
Be quiet already. Enough already.
American Heritage

Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.

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Origin of Already

  • From Middle English alredy, alredi, equivalent to al- +‎ ready. Compare Middle Low German alreide, alreids; Dutch alreeds (“already”). More at all, ready.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English alredi al all all redi ready ready

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Already Sentence Examples

  • We have already seen this method work.

  • You're already at the top of your class.

  • This was a decision she had already made once - but not really.

  • Hadn't she already forgotten?

  • What are you going to hide from me that I haven't already seen?

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