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EARLY DAYS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An early period of development
Example:
during the youth of the project
Synonyms:
early days; youth
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("early days" is a kind of...):
period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)
Context examples:
The beloved instrument, seldom touched now had not been moved, and above it Beth's face, serene and smiling, as in the early days, looked down upon them, seeming to say, "Be happy. I am here."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
It happened in the August of ’99, or it may have been in the early days of September; but I remember that we heard the cuckoo in Patcham Wood, and that Jim said that perhaps it was the last of him.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I think there was some compromise in the cap; but otherwise she was as weedy as in the early days of her mourning.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The events in question occurred in the early days of my association with Holmes, when we were sharing rooms as bachelors in Baker Street.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Given 2004 EW95’s present-day abode in the icy outer reaches of the Solar System, this implies that it has been flung out into its present orbit by a migratory planet in the early days of the Solar System.
(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)
