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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb After a while; soon.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb After a short time.
  • adverb After an indefinite period.
  • adverb In heaven; in the hereafter.
  • noun Heaven; the hereafter. Usually preceded with "the sweet."

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb at some eventual time in the future
  • noun an indefinite time in the future

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