anon

«anon» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: at once; soon — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

at once; soon

part of speech

adverb

meaning for a pupil

Soon, shortly, or straight away. tree →

how it differs from today

Old-fashioned today; we say soon or at once. The sentences use the same meaning.

examples

• Anon he caught the word Peter. (Peter Pan) tree →
• Ever and anon the light from his cigar gave a touch of colour to his face. (Peter Pan) tree →
• Anon I thought of the mourning mother beneath the cross at Golgotha, so deep was the expression of pain. (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) tree →

primary record

anon

tests

manual 10.3; corpora 8 (Torah 0, tales 8, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.9 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (a sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «anon» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.