EARLY DAYS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does early days mean? 

• EARLY DAYS (noun)
  The noun EARLY DAYS has 1 sense:

1. an early period of development

  Familiarity information: EARLY DAYS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EARLY DAYS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An early period of development

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

early days; youth

Context example:

during the youth of the project

Hypernyms ("early days" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

 Context examples 

Fanny in those early days had preferred her to Susan; and when the news of her death had at last reached Mansfield, had for a short time been quite afflicted.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In the early days of the mission, Voyager 1 flew by Jupiter, Saturn, and important moons of each.

(Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years, NASA)

The early days of our Solar System were a tempestuous time.

(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)

The research provides a "door-opening opportunity" to resolving inconsistencies in the narrative of the planet's early days.

(Earth's mantle, not its core, may have generated planet's early magnetic field, National Science Foundation)

I recognized the adventure of Yamikan as one likely to occur in the early days when Alaska first passed into the possession of the United States.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

If I remember rightly, you on one occasion, in the early days of our friendship, defined my limits in a very precise fashion.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These are early days, Trot, she pursued, and Rome was not built in a day, nor in a year.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The place into which we gazed was a pit, and may, in the early days, have been one of the smaller volcanic blow-holes of the plateau.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Besides, in drawing the picture of my early days, I also record those events which led, by insensible steps, to my after tale of misery, for when I would account to myself for the birth of that passion which afterwards ruled my destiny I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but, swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

There was a very general ignorance of all naval matters throughout the party; and he was very much questioned, and especially by the two Miss Musgroves, who seemed hardly to have any eyes but for him, as to the manner of living on board, daily regulations, food, hours, &c., and their surprise at his accounts, at learning the degree of accommodation and arrangement which was practicable, drew from him some pleasant ridicule, which reminded Anne of the early days when she too had been ignorant, and she too had been accused of supposing sailors to be living on board without anything to eat, or any cook to dress it if there were, or any servant to wait, or any knife and fork to use.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)