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Word entry · 4 letters

anon

Best crossword clue

"Soon, old-style"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /əˈnɑn/Part of speech adverbSorted annoStarts with AEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
1A2N3O4N

Definitions

  1. (old-fashioned or informal) in a little while

Word origin

From Middle English anoon, anon, anan (literally “in one (moment)”), from on (“in”) + ān (“one”). See on and one.

Used in a sentence

  • Caliban: Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt anon, I know it by thy trembling: now Prosper works upon thee.
  • But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
  • The dead man answered thus: “What good gift shall God give us?”, The boards answered him anon: “Flesh to feed hell's worm upon.”

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