early bird

1. 1.

   a person who arrives early before others do

   Broaderarrival
2. 2.

   a person who gets up very early in the morning

   Broaderriser

Questions about early bird

What does early bird mean?

early bird means "a person who arrives early before others do". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

Is early bird a common word?

early bird is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.