Anon, to sudden silence won, / In fancy they pursue / The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new, / In friendly chat with bird or beast— / And half believe it true.
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Anon
//əˈnɑn//
Synonyms for "anon" (43 found)
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Closest matches (9)
Strong matches (13)
Related words (21)
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Synonyms
1 entriesRelated terms
8 entriesderived
7 entriesderived from
1 entriesetymologically related_to
1 entriesrelated to
15 entriesTranslations
34 translations across 12 languages.
Czech
3 entries- velmi brzy adv (soon, in a little while)
- za chvíli adv (soon, in a little while)
- záhy adv (soon, in a little while)
Finnish
1 entries- nyymi noun (anonymous poster)
French
2 entries- tantôt adv (straight away, at once)
- tout de suite adv (straight away, at once)
German
3 entries- bald adv (soon, in a little while)
- sofort adv (straight away, at once)
- Bernd noun (anonymous poster)
Indonesian
2 entries- anonim noun (anonymous person)
- awanama noun (anonymous person)
Italian
1 entries- anonimo noun (anonymous person)
Macedonian
4 entries- ве́днаш adv (straight away, at once)
- вчас adv (straight away, at once)
- на́вчас adv (straight away, at once)
- на́скоро adv (soon, in a little while)
Middle French
1 entries- tantost adv (straight away, at once)
Polish
4 entries- niebawem adv (soon, in a little while)
- od razu adv (straight away, at once)
- wkrótce adv (soon, in a little while)
- anon noun (anonymous person)
Portuguese
2 entries- em breve adv (soon, in a little while)
- anão noun (anonymous person)
Russian
4 entries- вско́ре adv (soon, in a little while)
- ско́ро adv (soon, in a little while)
- то́тчас adv (straight away, at once)
- ано́н noun (anonymous person)
Swedish
3 entries- omedelbart adv (straight away, at once)
- snart adv (soon, in a little while)
- snart adv (soon, in a little while)
Sample sentences
17 total sentences available.
But anon their bemused wits awoke to the nature of the deed which was like to be done upon the moorlands.
Source: tatoeba (6605905)
But anon new foes / come swarming up, while ever and again / fast fall the showers of stones, and thick the javelins rain.
Source: tatoeba (6832951)
They were wild men, bursting ever and anon into quarrel, into all kinds of fierce sincerity; without right worth and manhood, no man could have commanded them.
Source: tatoeba (11564920)
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