Anon meaning

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In a short time; soon.
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Soon; in a little while.
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At another time; then; again.
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An anonymous person, especially an author.
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A work with an unknown author.
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A work without a title.
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The name given when an author's name is unknown.
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Anon is defined as at another time, or soon.

An example of anon is when something is happening tomorrow.

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At another time; later.
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At once; forthwith.
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Immediately; at once.
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(archaic) Straightway; at once.
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  • Time after time; now and then.
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ever and anon
  • Now and then.
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Idioms and Phrasal Verbs

Origin of anon

  • Middle English at once from Old English on ān on in on ān one oi-no- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • Old English anoon, anon, anan, lit., in one (moment), from on in + an one. See on and one.
    From Wiktionary
  • From anonymous, by shortening
    From Wiktionary
  • Shortened form of anonymous
    From Wiktionary

Anon Sentence Examples

  • Ever and anon a pamphlet issued from the pen of Burke.

  • But, as the exclusive privileges of the nobility were never recognized by any legal or formal act, men like Gaius Marius would ever and anon thrust themselves in.

  • across at the widest point and yet showing ridges capped with perpetual snows, the rivers, large or small, are mountain torrents, now swollen floods, anon half dry.

  • " As one goes through the poems, one is ever and anon face to face with a myth of the most childish and barbaric type," which " carries one back to prae-Aryan days."

  • Anon.

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