as soon as
as soon as conjunction: used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, soon.
Conjunction
as soon as
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, soon.
- I came as soon as I could.
- At the moment when; immediately (after); instantly; directly.
- As soon as he arrived, everyone gasped.
- […] that eye which watches guilt
And goodness, and hath power to see
Within the green the moulder’d tree,
And towers fall’n as soon as built— […]1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXVI”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 43
- Synonyms:
- no sooner than, immediately, once
- Used to indicate that the first action mentioned is as likely as, or is preferred to, the second action mentioned.
- I'd jump out the window as soon as not.
- He was a bad guy. He would hit you with a chunk of pipe as soon as look at you.2003 Oct. 12, William Safire (quoting 1913 New York City court records), "The Way We Live Now," New York Times (retrieved 19 Sep 2015)
Preposition
as soon as
as soon as meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada
as soon as in Tamil
- அதே சமயத்தில்
as soon as in Urdu
- جلدازجلد
as soon as in Bengali
- as soon as, immediately
- সঙ্গেসঙ্গে śoṅgeśoṅge
as soon as in Kannada
- ಕೂಡಲೇ, ಒಡನೆಯೇ, ತತ್ಕ್ಷಣ
More languagesFewer languages
- as soon as in Sanskrit
- यावत् yā́vat
- as soon as in Arabic
- مَا أَن mā ʔan, حَالَمَا ḥālamā, بِمُجَرَّد bimujarrad, مَا هُوَ إِلَّا أَنْ mā huwa ʔillā ʔan
- as soon as in Persian
- همین که hamin ke, به محض be mahz-e
- as soon as in Vietnamese
- ngay
Synonyms of as soon as
Forms of as soon as
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Words formed from as soon as
Questions about as soon as
- What does as soon as mean?
- As soon as means used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see as, soon.
- What is as soon as in Tamil?
- As soon as in Tamil is அதே சமயத்தில். See As soon as meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is as soon as?
- As soon as can be a conjunction or a preposition.
Words near as soon as in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: as soon as (page history and authors); as soon as (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); as soon as (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); সঙ্গেসঙ্গে (Bengali) (page history and authors); as soon as (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); यावत् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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