yonder
Use Yonder in a sentence
dər adjective
1.
being in that place or over there; being that or those over there: That road yonder is the one to take.
2.
being the more distant or farther: yonder side.
adverb
3.
at, in, or to that place specified or more or less distant; over there.
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Yonder
is always a great word to know.
So is flibbertigibbet. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a chattering or flighty, light-headed person. |
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World English Dictionary
yon or yond (jɒn, jɒnd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —determiner | |
| 1. | chiefly (Scot), (Northern English) |
| a. an archaic or dialect word for that : yon man | |
| b. (as pronoun): yon's a fool | |
| 2. | variants of yonder |
| [Old English geon; related to Old Frisian jen, Old High German jenēr, Old Norse enn, Gothic jains] | |
| yond or yond | |
| —determiner | |
| [Old English geon; related to Old Frisian jen, Old High German jenēr, Old Norse enn, Gothic jains] | |
| yonder (ˈjɒndə) | |
| —adv | |
| 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 |
| [C13: from Old English geond yond; related to Old Saxon jendra, Old High German jenēr, Gothic jaind] | |
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Example sentences
So with our new target location set into the navigation system, it's off into the wild blue yonder.
What you see is that it fluctuated in a relatively narrow range until this decade, then took off for the wild blue yonder.
Many of yonder years hacking was done by people who knew more than the people managing the systems.
Bob, off you go into the wild blue yonder flying high into the sky.
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