at the earliest

at the earliest

1. not sooner than

   Synonym: at the soonest

   Coordinate term: at the latest

• “at the earliest”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• “at the earliest”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “at the earliest”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “at the earliest” in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Longman.