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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. Yonder.
  2. pro. Regional That one or those yonder.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. That or those, referring to an object at a distance; yonder: now chiefly poetic.
  2. Same as yonder.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Distant, but within sight.
  2. adv. Yonder.
  3. pro. That one or those over there.
  4. abbr. knitting yarn over needle

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Poetic At a distance, but within view; yonder.
  2. adv. Obs. or Poetic Yonder.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adv. at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is archaic and dialectal)
  2. adj. distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal)

Etymologies

  1. Old English ġeon (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, short for yond, yond; see yond and yonder, yonder; see yonder. Pron., Middle English, from Old English geon; see i- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • bilby "They crawled happily hither and yon, and every now and then he had to redirect one of them before he or she could pull a chair over or bump his/her head on the underside of the Formica table in the kitchen galley."
    - 'The Dark Half', Stephen King. Dec 31, 2007

  • sionnach yonic does not, however, mean the quality of being yon Dec 3, 2007

  • sonofgroucho See hither and thither. Dec 2, 2007

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