Usually means: Previously occurred or happened before.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word Already:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. already: Merriam-Webster
  2. already: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. already: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. already: Collins English Dictionary
  5. already: Vocabulary.com
  6. Already, already: Wordnik
  7. already: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. already: Wiktionary
  9. already: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. already: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. already: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Already, already: Dictionary.com
  13. already: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. already: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Already (Edison Lighthouse album), Already (Jesus Jones album), Already: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Already: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. already: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. already: Rhymezone
  19. already: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. already: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. already: FreeDictionary.org
  22. already: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. already: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. already: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. already: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  26. already: Merriam-Webster

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. already: Sound Alike Words

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sound-Alike Words (No longer online)
  2. already: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. already: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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Definitions from Wiktionary (already)

▸ adverb:  Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
▸ adverb:  So soon.
▸ adverb:  (US) An intensifier used to emphasize impatience or express exasperation.
▸ adverb:  (Singapore, Singlish) Indicates action completion or change of state.

Similar:
been, previously, actually, have, still, apparently, just, obviously, currently, never, more...

Opposite:
not, yet, still, before, pending, forthcoming

Types:
already been, already been done, already been there, more...

Phrases:
already mentioned, enough already, already famous, all right already, the detective is already dead, more...


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Similar:
been, previously, actually, have, still, apparently, just, obviously, currently, never, more...

Opposite:
not, yet, still, before, pending, forthcoming

Types:
already been, already been done, already been there, more...

Phrases:
already mentioned, enough already, already famous, all right already, the detective is already dead, Miss You Already, Simpsons Already Did It, Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?, Always already, more...



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