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before long

before long prepositional phrase: soon.

Prepositional phrase

  1. soon
    • They left before long.
    • I knew they'd arrive before long.

before long meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

before long in Tamil

விரைவில்

before long in Malayalam

in a little while, soon, shortly
താമസിയാതെ, അടുത്തുതന്നെ, ഏറെത്താമസിയാതെ, അചിരേണ, നചിരം, ഇപ്പോൾ

Questions about before long

What does before long mean?
Before long means soon.
What is before long in Tamil?
Before long in Tamil is விரைவில். See Before long meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is before long?
Before long is a prepositional phrase.

Words near before long in the dictionary

  1. before dark
  2. before GTA 6
  3. before image journal
  4. before image journals
  5. before it was cool
  6. before long
  7. before one can blink
  8. before one knows it
  9. before one knows where one is
  10. before one's eyes
  11. before someone's time

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Adapted from Wiktionary: before long (page history and authors); before long (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); before long (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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