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yon
[ yon ]
pronoun
- that or those yonder.
Word History and Origins
Origin of yon1
Word History and Origins
Origin of yon1
Idioms and Phrases
see hither and thither (yon) .Example Sentences
We've seen Mitt Romney fly thither and yon grasping at excuses not to release his tax returns.
Yon deep bell tolls no matin—'tis the tocsin's hurried blare!
I'd believe it quicker aboot yon ither chiel, Charlie Rogerson.
He feels not the emotion of love, for his heart is made of ice, while his dark mind changes as the waters of yon river.
And if yer on a hoss, ye can foller a trail down to brushy fork and out on yon side.
As the madman was working over here, I climbed and slipped, and cut steps in the rock face of the cliff, on yon side.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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