Yonder
['jɒndə] or ['jɑndɚ]
Definition
(adj.) distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal); 'yonder valley'; 'the hills yonder'; 'what is yon place?' .
(adv.) at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is archaic and dialectal); 'the house yonder'; 'scattered here and yon'- Calder Willingham.
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Definition
(adv.) At a distance, but within view.
(a.) Being at a distance within view, or conceived of as within view; that or those there; yon.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
ad. At a distance (within view).
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Definition
adv. at a distance within view.—adj. being at a distance within view.
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Examples
- So there it was, in the haze yonder; and it increased and multiplied. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- No, interposed Crispin quickly, before Eunice could speak; we were discussing photographs on yonder sofa. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- When you passed a man upon the road, just yonder, you know, said Mr. Bucket. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Now I see why them men yonder held aloof from me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Or another, Is that a boat yonder? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- I never was like this but twice over in the quarantine yonder; and both times you found me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Them's her lights, Miss Abbey, wot you see a-blinking yonder,' cried another. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Who is that smooth-faced, animated outrage yonder in the fine clothes? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There is one yonder--Good God! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- You bring the lot to me, at that old Battery over yonder. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Nor, that, when we met one night, and spoke together in the room yonder, over the way, she listened at the door. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A despatch sent after you from over yonder. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Mr Eugene Wrayburn thought he had passed my young gentleman on the bridge yonder. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Come away--out of the public road--down the steps yonder! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- For a wife I have but the maniac upstairs: as well might you refer me to some corpse in yonder churchyard. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Yonder is a ruined arch of a bridge built by Julius Caesar nineteen hundred years ago. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- By Heaven, Malvoisin, yonder girl hath well-nigh unmanned me. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- If thou meanest yonder Saxon churls, said Front-de-Boeuf, their ransom will depend upon other terms than thine. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- You, imbeciles, where the lights are yonder, eating and drinking, and warming yourselves at fires! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- See the strong-box yonder! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- When I am found dead at the foot of the Cross, it will be by some of my own sort; some of the working people who work among the lights yonder. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Pointing in the direction of Saffron Hill, he inquired whether any one was up yonder to-night. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Whether the white and purple figures watching you from yonder hill think so is another question. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There they were yonder, by the felled tree. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Yes; she was one of the Pleiades, certainly; but I don't think she was the lost Pleiad, nor do I think she had anything to do with yonder mountain. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Over yonder across the yard, at our fire? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I fand him on the top of the moor yonder, him and three others. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Methinks that I felt the presence of my brother's minion, even when I least guessed whom yonder suit of armour enclosed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I heard some French fops, yonder, designating her as 'le type du voluptueux;' if soI can only say, 'le voluptueux' is little to my liking. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- That is my MAGNUM OPUS--the pile of papers on the side table yonder. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
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