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YONDER
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Distant but within sight ('yon' is dialectal)
Example:
what is yon place?
Synonyms:
yon; yonder
Classified under:
Similar:
distant (separated in space or coming from or going to a distance)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
At or in an indicated (usually distant) place ('yon' is archaic and dialectal)
Example:
scattered here and yon
Synonyms:
yon; yonder
Classified under:
Context examples:
Nor, that, when we met one night, and spoke together in the room yonder, over the way, she listened at the door.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mark yonder tree upon the bank, and see the tower which rises behind it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Sir Lothian Hume, the thin-faced gentleman over yonder, has backed him against Sir Charles Tregellis’s man.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As I sat by my bedroom window I saw three men in the moonlight down by the lodge gate yonder, but I thought nothing of it at the time.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
If you are not warm enough, you may take my cloak yonder; wrap it about you, and sit down in the arm-chair: there,—I will put it on.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The younger man sat over yonder; he knocked his ash off against the chest of drawers.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yonder, beyond the violet, hazy horizon, was the stream which led back to civilization.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Alas! dear sir, said she, yonder lies the granite rock where all the costly diamonds grow, and I want so much to go there, that whenever I think of it I cannot help being sorrowful, for who can reach it? only the birds and the flies—man cannot.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
“Dismal enough in the dark,” he said: “and the sea roars as if it were hungry for us. Is that the boat, where I see a light yonder?” “That's the boat,” said I.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“How read you that coat which hangs over yonder galley, Alleyne?” asked Sir Nigel.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
