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Word entry · 4 letters

soon

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"In a little while"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /suːn/Part of speech adverbSorted noosStarts with SEnds with N1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. In a short time or before long.

Word origin

From Middle English sone, from Old English sōna (“immediately, at once”), from Proto-West Germanic *sān(ō), from Proto-Germanic *sēna, *sēnô (“immediately, soon, then”), from *sa (demonstrative pronoun), from Proto-Indo-European *só (demonstrative pronoun).

Used in a sentence

  • I need the soonest date you have available.
  • Late in the evening we arrived at Quincy where we bivouacked for the night and taken a soon start the next morning to march to the arsenal.
  • Got up pretty early, ate a soon breakfast, had the sulky and was about to start to Newtown when it commenced raining..

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