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English[edit]
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English anoon, anon, anan (literally “in one (moment)”), from on (“in”) + ān (“one”). See on and one.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈnɑn/ enPR: *ə-nŏn'
- (UK) IPA(key): /əˈnɒn/
Audio (RP) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒn
- Hyphenation: a‧non
Adverb[edit]
anon (not comparable)
- (archaic) Straight away; at once.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
- CALIBAN: Thou dost me yet but little hurt; thou wilt anon, / I know it by thy trembling: now Prosper works upon thee.
- 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981, Matthew 13:20:
- But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it;
- 1866, Algernon Swinburne, After death, lines 47–50:
- The dead man answered thus:
- “What good gift shall God give us?”
- The boards answered him anon:
- “Flesh to feed hell's worm upon.”
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2
- Soon; in a little while.
- At another time; then; again.
- 1593, [William Shakespeare], Venvs and Adonis, London: Imprinted by Richard Field, […], OCLC 837166078; Shakespeare’s Venvs & Adonis: […], 4th edition, London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent and Co. […], 1896, OCLC 19803734:
- 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[edit]
Translations[edit]
straightway, at once
soon, in a little while
Etymology 2[edit]
From anonymous, by shortening
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
anon (plural anons)
- 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)
- 1904, Thomas Wright, The Life of Edward Fitzgerald, vol. 1, page 94
- 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.
- 1984, Helen Hooven Santmyer, "...And Ladies of the Club", page 214
- A work without a title.
Translations[edit]
Adjective[edit]
anon (not comparable)
Related terms[edit]
Anagrams[edit]
Esperanto[edit]
Noun[edit]
anon
- accusative singular of ano
Finnish[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
anon
- Genitive singular form of ano.
Verb[edit]
anon
- First-person singular present indicative form of anoa.
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old English on ān, equivalent to on + an.
Adverb[edit]
anon
- anon (straight away, at once)
- continually, on and on
- all the way
- c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 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[edit]
References[edit]
- “an-ōn, adv. & conj.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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