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Definition of Soonest
1. Adverb. With the least delay. "The soonest I can arrive is 3 P.M."
Definition of Soonest
1. Adjective. (superlative of soon) ¹
2. Adverb. (superlative of soon) ¹
3. Adverb. (informal) Very soon.(rfex) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Soonest
1. soon [adv] - See also: soon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soonest
Literary usage of Soonest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1847)
"And when they are dead; man that is soonest gone, as their drunken predecessors
have done, *quid ego •will have a can of wine with 'Maron's old woman to be ..."
2. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1843)
"If you send not answer by .this bearer, I pray send your man hether with the
soonest, that I may know your mind. If you know where I might find ..."
3. Irrigation and Drainage: Principles and Practice of Their Cultural Phases by Franklin Hiram King (1898)
"... OP SOIL WHICH soonest DEVELOP ALKALI Where alkali waters are used for purposes
of irrigation, and where sweet waters are being used under conditions of ..."
4. Irrigation and Drainage: Principles and Practice of Their Cultural Phases by Franklin Hiram King (1899)
"... KINDS OP SOIL WHICH soonest DEVELOP ALKALI Where alkali waters are used for
purposes of irrigation, and where sweet waters are ..."
5. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1843)
"that, as they should every one out of pride deem himself worthy to be first made
free, so they would soonest also rebel against them. ..."