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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adv. In or at that indicated place: the house over yonder.
  2. adj. Being at an indicated distance, usually within sight: "Yonder hills,” he said, pointing.
  3. pro. One that is at an indicated place, usually within sight.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. At or in that (more or less distant) place; at or in that place there.
  2. Chaucer uses the adverb frequently before the noun, and preceded by that or the: a use indicating the transition to the adjective use:
  3. Being at a distance within view, or as conceived within view; that or those, referring to persons or things at a distance.

Wiktionary

  1. adv. In a distant, indicated place; over there.
  2. Distant but within sight
  3. n. Something that is distant but within sight.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adv. At a distance, but within view.
  2. adj. Being at a distance within view, or conceived of as within view; that or those there; yon.

WordNet 3.0

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

Etymologies

  1. Cognate with Dutch ginder ('over there'). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from yond, yond; see yond. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • Kristianto2010 'Til He appeared and the soul felt its worth. A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices, for yonder breaks a new and glorious morn. Dec 24, 2010

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