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- Middle English, from Old English geond; see i- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Not since she started for a walk up that hill over 'yond'.”
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“Dey got 'bout hund'ed fifty peop 'yond' by Gran 'Point', and sim like dey mos 'all name Roussel.”
“College is being put be yond the reach of too many worthy students.”
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“Rachel woke to a heavy silence and from her crowded bed she saw the white flakes swirling be yond the window in the wind tunnel created by the close stone buildings.”
“Plagues were be - yond her control, but she held considerable influence over Nuitari, the moon that could be seen only by crea - tures aligned with evil.”
“The older kender, holding Damaris's hand, set off at a carefree pace up the stone steps that spiraled upward be - yond the reach of the torchlight.”
“Beyond ego, be - yond personality, beyond awareness, he moved, Kuang moving with him, evading his attackers with an ancient dance, Hideo's dance, grace of the mind-body interface granted him, in that second, by the clarity and singleness of his wish to die.”
“Dey thot it wuz an introodur and started attaking each ovver. :::shakes head::: Ai finks mai spazbabies am nooorotic be yond fixabuls….”
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“After years of practice he had developed the ability to transform most types of discomfort into ananda or bliss, but the pain he was feeling went beyond his threshold.”
“In the throng of senators one yond will have a lean and hungry look, and his name will not be Cassius but Barack Obama.”
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yond’.
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Whether 'Tis Nobler: Words From Hamlet
nay, 'tis, thee, haste, ho, liegemen, o, hath, holla, entreated, apparition, tush and 104 more...
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Literarie: The Tragedy of Coriolanus
A play by William Shakespeare.
sufferance, cram, garner, embracement, freelier, mammock, cambric, stitchery, cloven, murrain, manifest housekeeper, a crack'd drachma! and 88 more...
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Good Olde English
yean, nave, ilk, daw, lode, brae, scurf, yond, quench, throng, eftsoons, fang and 26 more...
Tweets
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bilby "CORIOLANUS: Why, then, should I be consul? By yond clouds,
Let me deserve so ill as you, and make me
Your fellow tribune."
- William Shakespeare, 'The Tragedy of Coriolanus'. Aug 28, 2009