ANON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anon mean? 

• ANON (adverb)
  The adverb ANON has 2 senses:

1. at another time

2. (old-fashioned or informal) in a little while

  Familiarity information: ANON used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANON (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At another time

Context example:

ever and anon

Sense 2

Meaning:

(old-fashioned or informal) in a little while

Context example:

see you anon

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

The cog must go about anon, and I know not how we may keep the water out of her.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Martin, who was extremely strong-headed, marvelled at the other's capacity for liquor, and ever and anon broke off to marvel at the other's conversation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

What creature was it, that, masked in an ordinary woman's face and shape, uttered the voice, now of a mocking demon, and anon of a carrion-seeking bird of prey?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Shadowy effigies in armor stood on either side, a dead silence reigned, the lamp burned blue, and the ghostly figure ever and anon turned its face toward him, showing the glitter of awful eyes through its white veil.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The abrupt sides of vast mountains were before me; the icy wall of the glacier overhung me; a few shattered pines were scattered around; and the solemn silence of this glorious presence-chamber of imperial Nature was broken only by the brawling waves or the fall of some vast fragment, the thunder sound of the avalanche or the cracking, reverberated along the mountains, of the accumulated ice, which, through the silent working of immutable laws, was ever and anon rent and torn, as if it had been but a plaything in their hands.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“He will come to anon,” said the knight, stooping over him and passing his fingers through his hair.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She hears him coming and hides, sees him put the potions into two cups of wine and bid the timid little servant, "Bear them to the captives in their cells, and tell them I shall come anon."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Thus engaged, he appeared, sitting in his own recess, quiet and absorbed enough; but that blue eye of his had a habit of leaving the outlandish- looking grammar, and wandering over, and sometimes fixing upon us, his fellow-students, with a curious intensity of observation: if caught, it would be instantly withdrawn; yet ever and anon, it returned searchingly to our table.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But more of this anon.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“We shall see them anon,” said the master-shipman.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)