Soonname

• 1

  A surname.

soonadj/suːn/

• 1

  Short in length of time from the present.

  • I need the soonest date you have available.
• 2

  dialectalEarly.

  • 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..
• 3

  Used as an alternative to express 'to be going to' in the form 'to be soon to'.

  • Hurry up, the wedding is soon to start!
  • A new shop is soon to be opened in this street.

soonadv/suːn/

• 1

  obsoleteImmediately, instantly.

• 2

  Within a short time; quickly.

  • 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.
• 3

  dialectalEarly.

  • How is it that ye are come so soon to day?
  • “Been huntin’ fuh mah mule. Anybody seen ’im?” he asked. “Seen ’im soon dis mornin’ over behind de school-house,” Lum said. “’’Bout ten o’clock or so. He musta been out all night tuh be way over dere dat early.”
• 4

  Readily; willingly; 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.