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{
"term": "soon",
"partOfSpeech": "adverb",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "in a short time from now; a short time after something else has happened",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "She sold the house **soon after** her husband died."
},
{
"text": "**Soon afterwards**, he joined a youth theatre group."
},
{
"text": "I'd love to meet up again **sometime soon**."
},
{
"text": "I **soon realized** the mistake."
},
{
"text": "**See you soon**!"
},
{
"text": "More success **soon followed**."
},
{
"text": "We’ll be home soon./We’ll soon be home."
},
{
"text": "I'll be **back soon**."
},
{
"text": "It **soon became** clear that the programme was a failure."
},
{
"text": "He promises to visit again soon."
},
{
"text": "**Coming soon** to a cinema/theater near you: 'War of the Wizards II'."
},
{
"text": "He moved in with a friend and **soon found** work."
},
{
"text": "The two men **soon discovered** they had much in common."
},
{
"text": "The trial is expected to start soon."
},
{
"text": "**Soon thereafter** *(= soon after that)*, she returned to Tanzania."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "early; quickly",
"cefr": "a1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "**How soon** can you get here?"
},
{
"text": "We'll deliver the goods **as soon as** we can."
},
{
"text": "Please send it **as soon as possible**."
},
{
"text": "Do you really have to go **so soon**?"
},
{
"text": "**It's too soon to** say what caused this."
},
{
"text": "Next Monday is **the soonest** we can deliver."
},
{
"text": "**The sooner** we set off, **the sooner** we will arrive."
},
{
"text": "**All too soon** the party was over."
},
{
"text": "They arrived home sooner than expected."
},
{
"text": "The note said, ‘Call Bill soonest’ *(= as soon as possible)*."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used in negative sentences and questions to refer to the near future",
"labels": "(especially North American English)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Will she be back anytime soon?"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that you would equally well like to do something as do something else that has been suggested",
"examples": [
{
"text": "I'd just as soon stay at home as go out tonight."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "to prefer to do something (than do something else)",
"examples": [
{
"text": "She'd sooner share a house with other students than live at home with her parents."
}
],
"topics": ["Preferences and decisions"]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "a bad situation will pass or be forgotten most quickly if nothing more is said about it",
"labels": "(British English, saying)",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that something was, or will be, done immediately",
"examples": []
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "used to say that something happens immediately after something else",
"examples": [
{
"text": "No sooner had she said it than she burst into tears."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "very soon; as soon as possible",
"examples": [
{
"text": "‘When shall I tell him?’ ‘The sooner the better.’"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "at some time in the future, even if you are not sure exactly when",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Sooner or later you will have to make a decision."
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "after a short time rather than after a long time",
"examples": [
{
"text": "We urged them to sort out the problem sooner rather than later."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/suːn/",
"audio": "so/soon/soon__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/suːn/",
"audio": "so/soon/soon__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English sōna ‘immediately’, of West Germanic origin."
}