What does soon mean?
Soon means Short in length of time from the present..
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/suːn/ · adjective
Short in length of time from the present..
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..
They were different from colored folks who had to be out to get a soon start.
Hurry up, the wedding is soon to start!
A new shop is soon to be opened in this street.
His wife is likely to come too after him, but we just do not know how soon after.
I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.
Use soon when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Soon means Short in length of time from the present..
Common synonyms include anon, betimes, by and by, directly.
Possible antonyms include behind time, eventually, immediately, on time.
I need the soonest date you have available.
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