Meaning

2 senses
  1. (archaic, dialectal)Who or which is over yonder, usually distant but within sight.

    Yonder lass, who be she?

    вон то́тvon tót, вон та́von tá, вон то́von tó

  2. (archaic, dialectal)One who or which is over yonder, usually distant but within sight.

    The yonder is Queen Niobe.

Examples

8 sentences
  1. Look over yonder.

  2. I put my pencils yonder on the bed.

    ruЯ положил карандаши вон туда, на кровать. — Ooneykcall

  3. Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel?

  4. "The city lieth yonder," and he pointed over his shoulder toward the smoking mountains.

  5. That person yonder will run.

Translations

5 languages
Русский
distant but within sight:

Origin

From Middle English yonder, yondre, ȝondre, ȝendre, from Old English ġeonre (“thither; yon

From Middle English yonder, yondre, ȝondre, ȝendre, from Old English ġeonre (“thither; yonder”, adverb), equivalent to yond (from ġeond, from Proto-Germanic *jainaz) + -er, as in hither, thither.

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Synonyms

1 synonyms
distant but within sight:yon

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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