"sooner" meaning in English

See sooner in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ˈsuːnə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈsunɚ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-sooner.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -uːnə(ɹ) Head templates: {{head|en|comparative adjective}} sooner
  1. comparative form of soon: more soon Tags: comparative, form-of Form of: soon (extra: more soon)
    Sense id: en-sooner-en-adj-OHkTHqoc

Adverb

IPA: /ˈsuːnə/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈsunɚ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-sooner.ogg [US]
Rhymes: -uːnə(ɹ) Head templates: {{head|en|comparative adverb}} sooner
  1. comparative form of soon: more soon Tags: comparative, form-of Form of: soon (extra: more soon)
    Sense id: en-sooner-en-adv-OHkTHqoc
  2. rather.
    Sense id: en-sooner-en-adv-vOHCjfQu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 27 44
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: sooner or later

Download JSON data for sooner meaning in English (2.1kB)

{
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "comparative adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "sooner",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "more soon",
          "word": "soon"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "comparative form of soon: more soon"
      ],
      "id": "en-sooner-en-adj-OHkTHqoc",
      "links": [
        [
          "soon",
          "soon#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "comparative",
        "form-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsuːnə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsunɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːnə(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-sooner.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/39/En-us-sooner.ogg/En-us-sooner.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/En-us-sooner.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sooner"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "sooner or later"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "comparative adverb"
      },
      "expansion": "sooner",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "more soon",
          "word": "soon"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "comparative form of soon: more soon"
      ],
      "id": "en-sooner-en-adv-OHkTHqoc",
      "links": [
        [
          "soon",
          "soon#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "comparative",
        "form-of"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "29 27 44",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I would sooner die than marry you!"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "rather."
      ],
      "id": "en-sooner-en-adv-vOHCjfQu",
      "links": [
        [
          "rather",
          "rather"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsuːnə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsunɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːnə(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-sooner.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/39/En-us-sooner.ogg/En-us-sooner.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/En-us-sooner.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sooner"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English comparative adjectives",
    "English comparative adverbs",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/uːnə(ɹ)",
    "Rhymes:English/uːnə(ɹ)/2 syllables"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "comparative adjective"
      },
      "expansion": "sooner",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English comparative adjectives"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "more soon",
          "word": "soon"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "comparative form of soon: more soon"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "soon",
          "soon#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "comparative",
        "form-of"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsuːnə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsunɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːnə(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-sooner.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/39/En-us-sooner.ogg/En-us-sooner.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/En-us-sooner.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sooner"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English 2-syllable words",
    "English comparative adjectives",
    "English comparative adverbs",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English non-lemma forms",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "Rhymes:English/uːnə(ɹ)",
    "Rhymes:English/uːnə(ɹ)/2 syllables"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "sooner or later"
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "comparative adverb"
      },
      "expansion": "sooner",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English comparative adjectives"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "extra": "more soon",
          "word": "soon"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "comparative form of soon: more soon"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "soon",
          "soon#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "comparative",
        "form-of"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I would sooner die than marry you!"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "rather."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "rather",
          "rather"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsuːnə/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈsunɚ/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-uːnə(ɹ)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-us-sooner.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/39/En-us-sooner.ogg/En-us-sooner.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/En-us-sooner.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (US)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "sooner"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.