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adverb
Soon  adv.  
1.
In a short time; shortly after any time specified or supposed; as, soon after sunrise. "Sooner said than done." "As soon as it might be." "She finished, and the subtle fiend his lore Soon learned."
2.
Without the usual delay; before any time supposed; early. "How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?"
3.
Promptly; quickly; easily. "Small lights are soon blown out, huge fires abide."
4.
Readily; willingly; in this sense used with would, or some other word expressing will. "I would as soon see a river winding through woods or in meadows, as when it is tossed up in so many whimsical figures at Versailles."
As soon as, or So soon as, immediately at or after another event. "As soon as he came nigh unto the camp... he saw the calf, and the dancing." See So... as, under So.
Soon at, as soon as; or, as soon as the time referred to arrives. (Obs.) "I shall be sent for soon at night."
Sooner or later, at some uncertain time in the future; as, he will discover his mistake sooner or later.
With the soonest, as soon as any; among the earliest; too soon. (Obs.)



adjective
Soon  adj.  Speedy; quick. (Obs.)






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"Soon" Quotes from Famous Books



... Josephine in her own room. Bourrienne, tell her, as you pass through, to get rid of the people as soon as possible." ...
— The Companions of Jehu • Alexandre Dumas, pere

... while she was still there, and without taking any notice of me, told her he had received a note from Lady Helena Powyss saying Squire Powyss had had a stroke, and that he must go at once to Powyss Place. He said he thought he would be absent all night, that he would return as soon as he could, and that she was to take care of herself. He kissed her good-by and left the room. My lady went to the, window and waved her hand to him, and watched him out of sight. About ten minutes after, while she still stood there, the door opened and Miss Inez came in and asked for Sir ...
— A Terrible Secret • May Agnes Fleming

... Trinity. But he does, for he begins by assuming infinite space filled to the farthest with matter ponderable and imponderable, and forthwith proceeds to weigh, measure, and divide the latter as though it were finite! Here are two terms of the doctrine of the Trinity at once. We get the third as soon as Professor Haeckel sets to work to explain the cosmic process, for as he does so he is all the while taking for granted that the infinite is pressing in and up through the finite, evolving beauty ...
— The New Theology • R. J. Campbell

... When I went away I said I didn't care if you had a vice-president or something while I was gone, but here I hardly turned my back and you had to go and elect Fred Kinney president! Well, if that's what you want, you can have it. I was going to have a little celebration down here some night pretty soon, and bring some port wine, like we drink at school in our crowd there, and I was going to get my grandfather to give the club an extra room across the hall, and prob'ly I could get my Uncle George to give us his old billiard ...
— The Magnificent Ambersons • Booth Tarkington

... Plato, indeed, in his Republic, goes so far as to eliminate the family relation altogether. Not only is the whole connection between men and women to be regulated by the State, in respect both of the persons and of the limit of age within which they may associate, but the children as soon as they are born are to be carried off to a common nursery, there to be reared together, undistinguished by the mothers, who will suckle indifferently any infant that might happen to be assigned to them for the purpose. Here, as in other ...
— The Greek View of Life • Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson


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