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eftsoons

eftsoons adverb: once again; another time.

Adverb

eftsoons (not comparable)

  1. (literary, obsolete, sometimes) Once again; another time.
    • And every day, when the convent of this abbey hath eaten, the almoner let bear the relief to the garden, and he smiteth on the garden gate with a clicket of silver that he holdeth in his hand; and anon all the beasts of the hill and of diverse places of the garden come out a 3000, or a 4000; and...1357, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, modernized spelling edition
  2. (archaic) Soon after, presently.
    • But wil you giue me leaue now eftsones a while to play the Sophister his part with you?1568, Erasmus Roterodamus; N. L., transl., A Modest Meane to Mariage, Pleasauntly set foorth, Henrie Denham
    • Now ſtands the Brere like a Lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleaſaunce: / But all this glee had no continuaunce. / For eftſoones Winter gan to approche, / The bluſtring Boreas did encroche, / And beate upon the ſolitarie Brere: / For nowe no ſuccour was ſeene him neere.1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Februarie. Aegloga Se[c]unda.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], →OCLC, folio 6, verso

eftsoons meaning in Tamil

eftsoons in Tamil

குறுகிய நேரம்

Examples of eftsoons in a sentence

  • And when they have eaten, the monk smiteth eftsoons on the garden gate with the clicket, and then anon all the beasts return again to their places that they come from..1357, John Mandeville, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, modernized spelling edition:
  • He holds him with his skinny hand, / “There was a ship,” quoth he. / “Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!” / Eftsoons his hand dropt he.1797–1798 (date written; revised 1817), S[amuel] T[aylor] Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. In Seven Parts.”, in Sibylline...
  • […] but when the world is really wise—may that day come eftsoons!1913, Walt Mason, Rippling Rhymes:
  • "Eftsoons he will speak unto you," warned the mummy formally; […]2009 Aug/Sep, Bruce Sterling, “Esoteric City”, in Fantasy/SciFi, volume 117, number 1/2, page 227:

Forms of eftsoons

alternative formeftsones
alternative formeftsoon
alternative formeftsoones
alternative formeft sona

Origin of eftsoons

From eft (“again, after”) + soon + -s (“adverb suffix”) – both senses (“soon after”, “again”) derive from senses of eft, which is related to after. Compare modern English soon after.

Questions about eftsoons

What does eftsoons mean?
Eftsoons means once again; another time.
What is eftsoons in Tamil?
Eftsoons in Tamil is குறுகிய நேரம். See Eftsoons meaning in Tamil.
How do you use eftsoons in a sentence?
And when they have eaten, the monk smiteth eftsoons on the garden gate with the clicket, and then anon all the beasts return again to their places that they come from..
What part of speech is eftsoons?
Eftsoons is an adverb.

Words near eftsoons in the dictionary

  1. eftsones
  2. eftsoon
  3. eftsooneries
  4. eftsoonery
  5. eftsoones
  6. eftsoons
  7. Eftychia
  8. efungumab
  9. eFuse
  10. eFuses
  11. EFV

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Adapted from Wiktionary: eftsoons (page history and authors); eftsoons (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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