Meaning & use
Soon
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At or within a short time from now; without much delay.
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We'll be there soon, so please wait by the entrance.
Soon after the meeting ended, everyone rushed to lunch.
A note on using this word
"Soon" comes from Old English sona, which originally meant "immediately"; its sense has loosened over centuries to mean "in the near future."
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