before long

Speech parts

1. before long - Adverb

2. before long - Phrase

Meaning

in the near future

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

soon shortly presently quickly sometime forthcoming momentarily anon pronto by and by in due time in short order in no time in good time in a little while
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Antonyms

after then later subsequently thereafter afterwards
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Examples

I'm a workaholic. Before long I'm traveling on my nervous energy alone. This is incredibly exhausting. Eva Gabor

Watch the too indignantly righteous. Before long you will find them committing or condoning the very offence which they have so fiercely censured. Sri Aurobindo

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences. Henry Campbell-Bannerman

No doubt the great majority of them are in the cemetery long ago, and I suppose the rest of us will join them before long. Speaking for myself I am willing; in fact I believe I have been willing ever since I was eighteen years old; not urgent, but willing, merely willing. Mark Twain

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long. Richard Bach

When one blind man leads several blind men, before long all will fall into a fire pit. Chinese Proverb

Words in the phrase

before long

Close letter words and terms

before i do that before i forget before it was cool before lunch before lunchtime before midday