yond
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒnd
Etymology 1
From Middle English, equivalent to yon (from Old English ġeond).
Adjective
yond (not comparable)
- further; more distant
- yonder
- c 1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act 5, Scene IV.
- See you yond coign o' the Capitol, yond corner-stone?
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Lines 46-48:
- Last night of all, / When yond same star that’s westward from the pole / Had made his course t' illume that part of heaven.
- c 1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act 5, Scene IV.
Adverb
yond (not comparable)
- yonder
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene ii:
- The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, / And say what thou seest yond.
- c. 1610-11, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act I, Scene ii:
Etymology 2
From Old English onda, andaenvy, jealousy; hatred, anger
Adjective
yond
- (obsolete) Furious; mad; angry; fierce.
- Spenser
- Then wexeth wood and yond.
- Spenser
See also
- beyond
Anagrams
- dyno, dyon