EARLY ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does early on mean? 

• EARLY ON (adverb)
  The adverb EARLY ON has 1 sense:

1. during an early stage

  Familiarity information: EARLY ON used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EARLY ON (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

During an early stage

Synonyms:

early; early on

Context example:

early on in her career

 Context examples 

This is one of the largest samples of quasars from this early on in the history of the Universe to be surveyed.

(ESO Observations Reveal Black Holes' Breakfast at the Cosmic Dawn, ESO)

This increases if they have experienced negative situations such as sexual abuse, famine, wars and poverty early on.

(Half of mental health disorders arise in adolescence, SciDev.Net)

Medicines can kill the parasite, especially early on.

(Chagas Disease, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

It's important to recognize and treat mental illnesses in children early on.

(Child Mental Health, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)

If you are asked to sign papers this month, do so early on—February 1-5 are excellent days—so plan to sign then.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

There's the tea bell, we have it early on the boy's account.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

A team from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, showed early on that the more cancer cells with PNCs in a tumor, the more likely it would spread.

(Scientists develop potential new approach to stop cancer metastasis, National Institutes of Health)

Steerforth not yet appearing, which induced me to apprehend that he must be ill, I left the Commons early on the third day, and walked out to Highgate.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Tom repeated his resolution of going to him early on the morrow; and though Julia, who had scarcely opened her lips before, observed, in a sarcastic manner, and with a glance first at Maria and then at Edmund, that the Mansfield theatricals would enliven the whole neighbourhood exceedingly, Edmund still held his peace, and shewed his feelings only by a determined gravity.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)