Usually means: In a brief amount of time.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. shortly: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shortly: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shortly: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shortly: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shortly: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shortly, shortly: Wordnik
  7. shortly: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shortly: Wiktionary
  9. shortly: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shortly: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shortly: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shortly: Dictionary.com
  13. shortly: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Shortly: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. shortly: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. shortly: Rhymezone
  17. shortly: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. shortly: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. shortly: Free Dictionary
  20. shortly: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. shortly: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shortly: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shortly: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shortly: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  In a short or brief time or manner; quickly.
adverb:  In or after a short time; soon.
adverb:  In few words
adverb:  In an irritable ("short") manner.

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