soon

Short in length of time from the present.

I need the soonest date you have available.

Early.

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.

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

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.

Immediately, instantly.

Within a short time; quickly.

His wife is likely to come too after him, but we just do not know how soon after.

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.

Early.

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

“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.”

Readily; willingly; used with would, or some other word expressing will.

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.

A surname.