SOON
- Definiția din dicționar
Traducere: română
Notă: Puteţi căuta fiecare cuvânt din cadrul definiţiei printr-un simplu click pe cuvântul dorit.
Soon (s&oō_;n), adv. [OE. sone, AS. s&ō;na; cf. OFries. s&ō;n, OS. s&ā;na, s&ā;no, OHG. s&ā;r, Goth. suns.] 1. In a short time; shortly after any time specified or supposed; as, soon after sunrise. “Sooner said than done.” Old Proverb. “As soon as it might be.” Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
She finished, and the subtle fiend his lore
Soon learned.
Milton.
[1913 Webster]
2. Without the usual delay; before any time supposed; early.
[1913 Webster]
How is it that ye are come so soon to-day?
Ex. ii. 18.
[1913 Webster]
3. Promptly; quickly; easily.
[1913 Webster]
Small lights are soon blown out, huge fires abide.
Shak.
[1913 Webster]
4. Readily; willingly; -- in this sense used with would, or some other word expressing will.
[1913 Webster]
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.
Addison.
[1913 Webster]
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.” Ex. xxxii. 19. 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.” Shak. -- 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.] Holland.
[1913 Webster]
Soon, a. Speedy; quick. [Obs.] Shak.
[1913 Webster]
