soon

IPA: sˈun

noun

  • A surname.

adjective

  • Short in length of time from the present.
  • (US, dialect) Early.
  • Used as an alternative to express 'to be going to' in the form 'to be soon to'.

adverb

  • (obsolete) Immediately, instantly.
  • Within a short time; quickly.
  • (now dialectal) Early.
  • Readily; willingly; used with would, or some other word expressing will.
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Examples of "soon" in Sentences

  • He’ll be here soon, I fancy. text reads _soon, I, fancy.
  • "Come along, as soon as you wish -- but don't come _too soon_."
  • In sixth grade I earned the nickname "Medusa" because of my hair, and the nickname soon caught on -- that and "Daisy Mae" because of my overalls.
  • St. Thomas having maintained, that we are obliged to love God as soon as we attain the use of reason, the Jesuit Sirmond answered him, _that is very soon_.
  • Your answer is, in fact, an identical proposition; for, when you say, "_As soon as_ profits are absorbed," I retort, Ay, no doubt "_as soon_" as they are; but when will that be?
  • Shostakovich himself never saw the film, so it was presumably under orders from the Stalin regime that his name soon appeared on a copyright infringement suit filed in this country.
  • Never thought of _death_, or even looked upon it, for mother told us there was no need of harrowing up our feelings -- it would come soon enough, she said; and to me, who hoped to live so long, it has come _too soon_ -- all too soon; "and the hot tears rained through the transparent fingers, clasped so convulsively over her face.
  • That they will soon become a kind of separate and independant people; who will set up for themselves, -- will _soon_ have manufactures of their own, -- will _neither_ take supplies from the mother country, nor the provinces at _the back_ of which they are settled: -- That being at such a distance from the seat of _government_, from _courts_,

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