yond

American  

[yond] / yɒnd /

adverb

Archaic.

1. yonder.

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Etymology

Origin of yond

before 900; Middle English; Old English geond; akin to Dutch ginds, Gothic jaind. See yon

Example Sentences

Yond “senior official” has a lean and hungry look.

From The Wall Street Journal

He examined Hailee Steinfeld, who was walking around in what appeared to be a hectare of mist, and summed up his reaction in two words: “Be. Yond.”

From The New Yorker

Be- yond all comprehension, she doesn’t seem to care if I am a mestiza or an indigena.

From Literature

He didn’t have much of a routine be­yond eating, drinking and sleeping, but there were times when he stirred from his lethargy and rambled about his territory, making noises and being cranky.

From Literature

“The motivation for me was looking at contemporary physics and realizing that it doesn’t support an intuitive picture of unobservable objects. You could say particle physics is about mesons and quarks and baryons and electrons and neutrinos and so on, but when you get be- yond the pictures they draw and just look at the theories, it’s very difficult to interpret those theories as being about particles, right?”

From Scientific American