already
prior to a specified or implied time
How often you will meet it
Rank 339 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 60,647 times across 175,160 chapters — 0.029% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
adverb
- prior to a specified or implied time she has already graduated
already in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Now go upstairs to your bed; it is already late.
A Knight of the White Cross · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1
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A pleasant little intimacy seemed already established between the two of them.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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Already the sculptor Life was chiselling away the easy curves with the tool of responsibility.
The Courage of the Commonplace · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · Chapter 1
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Curiosity seekers have carried away already all that was left of the memorable event, even to pieces of charcoal.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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All this, being town's talk, Christian already knew; more she had never inquired, not even when she was engaged to him.
Christian's Mistake · Dinah Maria Mulock Craik · Chapter 1