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Already is defined as something that happened before a specific time.

(adverb)

A student that graduated yesterday is an example of a student who already graduated.

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See already in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adverb

by or before the given or implied time
even now or even then: already two days late

See already in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adverb

By this or a specified time: The children were already asleep when we got home.
So soon: Are you quitting already?
Informal Used as an intensive: Be quiet already. Enough already.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English alredi

Origin: : al, all; see all

Origin: + redi, ready; see ready

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