different between now vs soon

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /na?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Etymology 1

From Middle English now, nou, nu, from Old English n?, from Proto-West Germanic *n?, from Proto-Germanic *nu, from Proto-Indo-European *n? (“now”).

Adjective

now (not comparable)

1. Present; current.
2. (informal) Fashionable; popular; up to date; current.
3. (archaic, law) At the time the will is written. Used in order to prevent any inheritance from being transferred to a person of a future marriage. Does not indicate the existence of a previous marriage.

See also

• happening

Adverb

now (not comparable)

1. At the present time.

2. (sentence) Used to introduce a point, a qualification of what has previously been said, a remonstration or a rebuke.
3. Differently from the immediate past; differently from a more remote past or a possible future; differently from all other times.
4. Differently from the situation before a stated event or change of circumstance.
5. At the time reached within a narration.

6. In the context of urgency.

7. (obsolete) As 'but now': Very recently; not long ago; up to the present.
   • c. 1656, Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and Fight for Sea

     They that but now, for honour and for plate, / Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.

Derived terms

Translations

Conjunction

now

1. Since, because, in light of the fact; often with that.

Translations

Interjection

now!

1. Indicates a signal to begin.

Translations

Noun

now (usually uncountable, plural nows)

1. (uncountable) The present time.

2. (often with "the") The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.

   Synonyms: here and now; see also Thesaurus:the present

3. (countable, chiefly in phenomenology) A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.

Derived terms

• eternal now

Translations

References

• now at OneLook Dictionary Search

Etymology 2

See know.

Verb

now

1. Misspelling of know.

Anagrams

• NWO, own, won

English

Etymology

From Middle English soone, sone, from Old English s?na (“immediately, at once”), from Proto-West Germanic *s?n(?), from Proto-Germanic *s?na, *s?nô (“immediately, soon, then”), from *sa (demonstrative pronoun), from Proto-Indo-European *só (demonstrative pronoun).

Cognate with Scots sone, sune, schone (“soon, quickly, at once”), North Frisian san (“immediately, at once”), dialectal Dutch zaan (“soon, before long”), Middle Low German sân (“right afterwards, soon”), Middle High German s?n, son (“soon, then”), Old High German s?r (“immediately, soon”). Compare also Gothic ???????????????? (suns, “immediately, soon”), from Proto-Germanic *suniz (“soon”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: so?on, IPA^(key): /su?n/
• Rhymes: -u?n

Adjective

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, p 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, p 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, p 220:

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

Adverb

soon (comparative sooner, superlative soonest)

1. (obsolete) Immediately, instantly.
2. Within a short time; quickly.
3. (now dialectal) Early.
   • 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Exodus 2:18,^[1]

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

   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, 1978, Chapter 6, p. 87,^[2]

     “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 No. 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.

Derived terms

Translations

References

• soon at OneLook Dictionary Search
• soon in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• noos, noso-, onos, oons, sono-

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• sogn (Sappada, Sauris)

Etymology

From Old High German sag?n, from Proto-West Germanic *saggjan, from Proto-Germanic *sagjan?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek?-.

Compare Low German seggen, Dutch zeggen, English say, Danish sige, Swedish säga.

Verb

soon

1. (Timau) to say

References

• “soon” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sooni, from Proto-Uralic *sëne. Cognates include with Finnish suoni, Mansi ???? (t?n) andHungarian ín (“sinew”).

Noun

soon (genitive soone, partitive soont)

1. vein, blood vessel

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Wolof

Etymology

From French jaune.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??n/

Verb

soon

1. to be yellow