TOMORROW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tomorrow mean? 

• TOMORROW (noun)
  The noun TOMORROW has 2 senses:

1. the day after today

2. the near future

  Familiarity information: TOMORROW used as a noun is rare.

• TOMORROW (adverb)
  The adverb TOMORROW has 1 sense:

1. the next day, the day after, following the present day

  Familiarity information: TOMORROW used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOMORROW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The day after today

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

what are our tasks for tomorrow?

Hypernyms ("tomorrow" is a kind of...):

24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The near future

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

everyone hopes for a better tomorrow

Hypernyms ("tomorrow" is a kind of...):

future; futurity; hereafter; time to come (the time yet to come)

• TOMORROW (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The next day, the day after, following the present day

 Context examples 

I thought you did not mean to come back till tomorrow.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I should imagine that he might be here tomorrow, sir.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Tomorrow I have to get up and work again.

(Norway's Warholm wins gold in 400 m hurdles at World Championships in Doha, Wikinews)

Beth spoke earnestly, and Meg promised she would go tomorrow.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But I shall see them tomorrow.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

"Dear me," said the Voice, "how sudden! Well, come to me tomorrow, for I must have time to think it over."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Do not let this letter disturb you; do not answer tomorrow, or the next day, or even until you come, if it will give you pain.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But the old woman called out, “Come and eat your suppers, and let the thing be till tomorrow; the finger won’t run away.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“I expect that we shall be able to go down to Norfolk tomorrow, and to take our friend some very definite news as to the secret of his annoyance.”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If emissions were curbed tomorrow, this sudden shallow horizon would still appear, even if possibly delayed.

(Marine organisms in Southern Ocean will face shallower zone for life, National Science Foundation)