| 单词 | yonder |
| 释义 | yonder (once / 271 pages) adjadv Yonder is an old-fashioned way to say, "Over there." When your sister asks where you parked the car, you might jokingly reply, "Yonder, by the fire hydrant." Some dialects in various parts of the United States still use the word yonder, usually to specify something that's within sight, and often with accompanied by a gesture pointing toward it. You could say, "My dog's yonder in the corn field," or "I saw Billy yonder, on the tire swing." The phrase "wild blue yonder" was first used to refer to the sky in the 1939 U.S. Air Force song. WORD FAMILYyonder: yonderly, yonders USAGE EXAMPLESJust listen to the raw power of his hits “Tallahassee Lassie,” “Palisades Park,” “Way Down Yonder in New Orleans” and “Okefenokee”. Washington Times(Nov 01, 2016) Miraculous destinations were purported to lie just over yonder, through a drunken blur, somewhere across an icy campus. The New Yorker(Oct 22, 2016) Nothing will content them but the extremest limit of the land; loitering under the shady lee of yonder warehouses will not suffice. Time(Oct 18, 2016) 1adj distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal) yonder valley the hills yonder Syn yon distant separated in space or coming from or going to a distance 2adv at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is archaic and dialectal) the house yonder Syn yon |
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