{
    "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."
}