early entrance
Ahead of schedule
Early entrance refers to beginning school, college, or a program before the typical or required age.
A child with early entrance to kindergarten starts at four instead of five; a student with early entrance to university enrolls at fifteen or sixteen.
The term appears most often in educational policy discussions: The district revised its early entrance requirements for gifted students.
- admissionEntry or confession
- gatewayPoint of access
- front doorPrimary household entry point
- thresholdPoint of beginning
- head startBeginning advantage given
getting in · first dibs · precocious · doorway · open sesame · premiere · advance · opening · debut · priority · VIP access · first · access · prodigy · foyer · vestibule · ticket · beginning
- stage mishapsmissed cue, line flub, tripping, stumble, trip
early entrancelate entrance
Appearing after scheduled time
delayed entry · late arrival · late entry · fashionably late
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