Meaning

3 senses
  1. (plural, plural only)A time too soon to make a decision or come to a conclusion.

    It’s early days (yet) to know for certain.

  2. (plural, plural only)The initial period of an innovation

    In the early days of television, the service was always breaking down.

    an early period of development

  3. (plural, plural only)Initial stages of a project.

    Hold on. We're still early days on this.

Examples

13 sentences
  1. I went to bed earlier in those days.

    deDamals bin ich früher ins Bett gegangen. — brauchinet

  2. I used to go to bed earlier in those days.

    deDamals bin ich eher ins Bett gegangen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. In the early days of American history, blacks lived in slavery.

    ruВ первые дни американской истории негры были рабами. — odexed

  4. This is the house where I lived in my early days.

  5. They must have struggled against adversity from their early days.

Forms

plural: early dayses
Singularearly days
Pluralearly dayses

regular

Synonyms

8 synonyms
initial time period:beginningA2dawning
initial stage of a project:outsetC1early inningsgenesisinceptionformative year
Close in meaning
  • an early period of development:youth

See also

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