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# anon

«anon» in Mova's school dictionary: **soon or shortly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (old use)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Anon means soon or shortly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anon/#m1)

2) «Ever and anon» means now and then, from time to time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anon/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old tales, when a character says he will come or act soon

### examples

- I will come anon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anon/#x1)
- Ever and anon the bell rang from the tower. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anon/#x2)
- Anon he heard the word Peter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anon/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «anon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/anon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.