soon.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) enPR: so͞on, IPA^(key): /suːn/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /sun/
• 韻: -uːn

形容詞

soon (comparative sooner, superlative soonest)

1. Short in length of time from the present.

   I need the soonest date you have available.

2. (US, dialect) Early.
   • 1992, W. H. Andrews, A Paul Green Reader, page 129:

     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.

   • 1997, Dorothy Stanaland Samuel; Taliaferro Leslie Samuel, The Samuell/Samuel Families of Tidewater Virginia, page 148:

     Got up pretty early, ate a soon breakfast, had the sulky and was about to start to Newtown when it commenced raining..

   • 2000, Laurence G. Avery, A Paul Green Reader, page 220:

     They were different from colored folks who had to be out to get a soon start.

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.

副詞

soon (comparative sooner, superlative soonest)

1. (obsolete) Immediately, instantly.
2. Within a short time; quickly.
   • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 1, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:

     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.

   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […] , down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.

   • 2014 April 21, “Subtle effects”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8884:

     Manganism has been known about since the 19th century, when miners exposed to ores containing manganese […] began to totter, slur their speech and behave like someone inebriated. The poisoning was irreversible, and soon ended in psychosis and death.

3. (now dialectal) Early.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus 2:18:

     How is it that ye are come so soon to day?

   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, chapter 6, in Their Eyes Were Watching God‎^[1], University of Illinois Press, published 1978, page 87:

     “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.
   • 1713, Joseph Addison, The Guardian, number 101:

     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.

派生語

参照

• soon at OneLook Dictionary Search
• “soon”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• noos, noso-, onos, oons, sono-