anon

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See also: Anon, ânon, and anon.

English

Pronunciation

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  • Audio (RP):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒn
  • Hyphenation: a‧non

Etymology 1

From Middle English anoon, anon, anan (literally “in one (moment)”), from on (“in”) +‎ ān (“one”). See on and one.

Adverb

anon (not comparable)

  1. (archaic) Straight away; at once.
  2. Soon; in a little while.
    • 1598, John Stow, A Suruay of London, →OL:
      […] for as much as the same consisteth not in the extreames, but in a verie mediocritie of wealth and riches, as it shall better appeare anone.
  3. At another time; then; again.
    • 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venus and Adonis, London: […] Richard Field, […], →OCLC:
      Sometimes he trots, as if he told the steps,
      With gentle majesty and modest pride;
      Anon he rears upright, curvets and leaps,
      As who should say, lo! thus my strength is try'd...
    • 1906, O. Henry, A Cosmopolite in a Café:
      Anon he would be telling you of a cold he acquired in a Chicago lake breeze and how old Escamila cured it in Buenos Ayres with a hot infusion of the chuchula weed.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From anonymous, by shortening.

Noun

anon (plural anons)

  1. An anonymous person, especially an author.
    • 1904, Thomas Wright, The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, vol. 1, page 94
      Indeed they did all they could to avoid it, coyly hiding their identities behind initials, asterisks, and anons
    • 1940, Virginia Woolf, "Anon".
      Every body shared in the emotion of Anons [sic] song .... Anon is sometimes man, sometimes woman....
    • 2004, Jane Milling, Peter Thomson, Joseph W. Donohue, Baz Kershaw, The Cambridge History of British Theatre, page 207
      Indeed, virtually every known playwright (and probably most of those 'anons') occupied some position in one or more of the patronage networks
    • 2006, J. Michael Walton, Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English, page 185
      those identified by initials only and the 'Anons' (some of whom are here unmasked)
  2. A work with an unknown author.
    • 1984, Helen Hooven Santmyer, "...And Ladies of the Club", page 214
      On the floor again she came upon a couple of "Anons" and frowned at them: Ought We to Visit Her and Cast Away in The Cold. Those would certainly do very well on the top shelf.
  3. A work without a title.
Translations

Adjective

anon (not comparable)

  1. anonymous

Derived terms

Anagrams

Esperanto

Noun

anon

  1. accusative singular of ano

Finnish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑnon/, [ˈɑ̝no̞n]
  • Rhymes: -ɑnon
  • Syllabification(key): a‧non

Noun

anon

  1. (deprecated template usage) genitive singular of ano

Verb

anon

  1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of anoa

Anagrams

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English on ān, equivalent to on + an.

Adverb

anon

  1. anon (straight away, at once)
  2. continually, on and on
  3. all the way
    • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, line LINES:
      So hadde I spoken with hem everichon / That I was of hir felaweshipe anon,
      So had I spoken with them, every one, / That I was of their fellowship anon,

Descendants

  • English: anon
  • Scots: on-ane, one-ane, onan

References

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