Meaning

1 senses
  1. (literary)The vast distance, particularly the sky or trackless forest.

    She set off into the blue yonder.

    dort drüben

    далёкоdaljóko

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.

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  5. That person yonder will run.

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Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
the vast distance:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
the vast distance:

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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Forms

plural: yonders
Singularyonder
Pluralyonders

regular

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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