Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adv. In or at that indicated place: the house over yonder.
- adj. Being at an indicated distance, usually within sight: "Yonder hills,” he said, pointing.
- pro. One that is at an indicated place, usually within sight.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- At or in that (more or less distant) place; at or in that place there.
- Chaucer uses the adverb frequently before the noun, and preceded by that or the: a use indicating the transition to the adjective use:
- Being at a distance within view, or as conceived within view; that or those, referring to persons or things at a distance.
Wiktionary
- adv. In a distant, indicated place; over there.
- Distant but within sight
- n. Something that is distant but within sight.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adv. At a distance, but within view.
- adj. Being at a distance within view, or conceived of as within view; that or those there; yon.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal)
- adv. at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is archaic and dialectal)
Etymologies
- Cognate with Dutch ginder ('over there'). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from yond, yond; see yond. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I see nothing, O _'tis yonder, 'tis yonder, 'tis yonder_, says he!”
“When I say _this orange, yonder orange, one orange_, the words _this, yonder_, and _one_ do not tell the kind, but simply point out or number the orange, and limit the application of the word to the orange pointed out or numbered.”
“Some fool will hear you calling, see a dark mass in yonder tree, and all of a sudden you are the target.”
“April 27th, 2009 old crow watching hungrily from his perch in yonder tree”
“The image over yonder is the cover ofClose Encounters of the Urban Kind, edited by Jennifer Brozek.”
“Sharrkan turned to his brother addressing him and said, Were not this holy man a miracle worker, he had never slain yonder furious knight.”
“He replied, “O my lord! yonder is the Castle of Crystal and that is the city thou seekest.””
““Wilt thou come with me and look upon the beauty of a youth who sleepeth in yonder burial place?” she asked and he answered, “I will.””
“Shaykh, thou knowest this garden of thine to be a goodly place; but the pavilion yonder is old and ruinous.”
“He espied King Badr Basim in his form of a white robed bird, with red bill and legs, captivating the sight and bewildering the thought; and, looking thereat, said in himself “Verily, yonder is a beautiful bird: never saw I its like in fairness or form.””
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘yonder’.
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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Places
Cities, Towns, Streets, anything that's a place.
mountain view, redmond, katonah, ellsworth, home, earth, here, there, cupertino, penge, golden valley, hooker creek and 1 more...
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fuckward bound
directions!fuckward, hopeward, roundways, bumward, archeways, dumbward, slipways, sleepward, tripward, revoways, plagueward, failways and 32 more...
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Garbiage
word trash
parapluie, brobdingnagian, plié, segue, laconic, pastoral, phthisis, belly, synecdoche, apotheosis, sepulchral, mollification and 40 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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kringlan's Words
fecund, riposte, nebbish, nonpareil, deign, eschew, imbroglio, spelunking, fop, foofaraw, tundra, talon and 128 more...
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spread out, spacious words of spe
words pertaining to the root spe- (hope) with some allegorical liberties.
paten, pan, pass, patent, petal, expand, repand, passacaglia, passe, paseo, paella, spawn and 150 more...
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billy shakespeare's guide to good living
hurlyburly, nave, direful, whence, sooth, dwindle, tempest-tost, withal, selfsame, wrack, unfix, recompense and 142 more...
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curligirli0's Words
crapulous, swish, shiatsu, zen, xenoglossy, nincompoop, loquacious, pianissimo, onomatopoeia, imperturbable, silky, hosanas and 379 more...
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katiad's Words
exquisite, obnoxious, noxious, extravaganza, whirlwind, whirling, wild, spinster, existential, chaos, zephyr, blasphemy and 310 more...
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je les adore!
fusillade, foal, celestial, abattoir, byzantium, berlin, casablanca, babylon, balkans, albion, avalon, between the devil... and 471 more...
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the_grene_kni3t's Words
acuarela, sesquipedalian, capital, métier, chap, cove, guv, guv'nor, ratiocination, transatlantique, ineffable, aural and 142 more...
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huck finnian
ain't, stretchers, without, sivilize, hogshead, victuals, bulrushers, tolerable, goggles, middling, reckoned, who-whooing and 287 more...
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artoparts's Words
illation, finite, edify, abide, abrade, vouch, amiss, vociferate, perusing, techantiquery, rigamarole, holon and 615 more...
Tweets
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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