Early American

adjective

1. (of furniture, buildings, utensils, etc.) built or made in the U.S. in the colonial period or somewhat later.

2. built or made in imitation of works of this period.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Early American¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

Jews could neither vote nor hold office in some parts of the early American republic.

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Actually, datura grows naturally in the U.S. and was well known to early American colonists.

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Peter Mancall, a history professor at USC, has delved into major moments of political violence in early American history, and said a lot of it stemmed from “some perception of grievance.”

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As Justice Sonia Sotomayor points out in her furious dissent, Barrett’s history lesson is, at a minimum, dubious: There is a “long history of injunctive relief granted to nonparties,” including in the Court of Chancery and early American courts.

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Many early American Jews, especially in the South, embraced slavery wholeheartedly.

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