ahead of time

1. 1.

   before the usual time or the time expected

   “she graduated early”

   “the house was completed ahead of time”

   Synonymsearlytoo soon

Questions about ahead of time

What does ahead of time mean?

ahead of time means "before the usual time or the time expected".

What is another word for ahead of time?

Close synonyms include early, too soon. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ahead of time a common word?

ahead of time is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.