YONDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yonder mean? 

• YONDER (adjective)
  The adjective YONDER has 1 sense:

1. distant but within sight ('yon' is dialectal)

  Familiarity information: YONDER used as an adjective is very rare.

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

1. at or in an indicated (usually distant) place ('yon' is archaic and dialectal)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• YONDER (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Distant but within sight ('yon' is dialectal)

Synonyms:

yon; yonder

Context example:

what is yon place?

Similar:

distant (separated in space or coming from or going to a distance)

• YONDER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At or in an indicated (usually distant) place ('yon' is archaic and dialectal)

Synonyms:

yon; yonder

Context example:

scattered here and yon

 Context examples 

“Tell me, Aylward,” said Alleyne, “what was amiss with the door of yonder inn that you should ask me to observe it.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Uncle Dan—yonder,” answered Em'ly, nodding at the boat-house.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I believe that is their dust over yonder.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It’s the big white one over yonder.

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

That is singular, because you sat down in that chair over yonder near the corner.

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

No; stay a moment; and tell me what the people in the drawing-room yonder are doing.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There is an excellent archway down yonder in case a too zealous policeman should intrude.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But it falls away towards Mapleton, and you can see from here that there is a long hollow over yonder, which must have been very wet on Monday night.

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

It seems that the humans hold one side of this plateau—over yonder, where you saw the caves—and the ape-men hold this side, and there is bloody war between them all the time.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the other pretended to give way, and said, “Thou must let the sack of wisdom descend, by untying yonder cord, and then thou shalt enter.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)