1. early on - Adjective
2. early on - Adverb
during an early stage
Source: WordNetI'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time. Elvis Costello
He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out. Iris Murdoch
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength. Maya Angelou
I think I realized early on that my family wasn't like other families. Victoria Gotti
Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri. Francis Parkman
I suppose the story of my life is a search for love, but more than that, I have been looking for a way to repair myself from the damages I suffered early on and to define my obligation, if I had any, to myself and my species. Marlon Brando