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单词 yonder
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yonder

(jɒndəʳ)
adverb [ADVERB with verb]
Yonder is an old-fashioned or dialect word for 'over there'.
Now look yonder, just beyond the wooden post there.
Yonder is also a determiner.
His mother, Claudia, lies under yonder tree.

yonder in British English

(ˈjɒndə)
adverb
1. 
at, in, or to that relatively distant place; over there
determiner
2. 
being at a distance, either within view or as if within view
yonder valleys
Word origin
C13: from Old English geond yond; related to Old Saxon jendra, Old High German jenēr, Gothic jaind

yonder in American English

(ˈjɑndər)
adjective
1. 
farther; more distant (with the)
2. 
being at a distance, but within, or as within, sight; that or those over there
adverb
3. 
at or in that place; over there
Word origin
ME, extension of yond: see yond

More idioms containing
yonder

into the wide blue yonder

Examples of 'yonder' in a sentence
yonder

"Could you not from this room explode a box of gunpowder placed across the street in that house yonder?
Gavin Weightman SIGNOR MARCONI'S MAGIC BOX: The invention that sparked the radio revolution (2003)
What light through yonder window breaks?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
It may be an Easter echo that can carry them from despair to beauty yonder.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Can any lead touch yonder floor, any mast scrape yonder roof?
Herman Melville Moby Dick (1901)
Those chaps in yonder boat?
Herman Melville Moby Dick (1901)
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