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Adverbs

This week’s words
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dispositively
yonder


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PRONUNCIATION:

(YON-duhr)

MEANING:

adverb: Over there; at a relatively distant place.
adjective: Being over there; farther away.

ETYMOLOGY:

From yond (at a distance), from Old English geond (beyond, at a distance, over there). Earliest documented use: before 1300.

NOTES:

Yonder is the world’s least precise indicator. Depending entirely on the vigor with which a person points their finger, yonder can mean anything from “just across the street” to “a three-day horseback ride past the mountains.”

USAGE:

“I stopped right yonder and waited for them to reach the other side.”
David Sedaris; Goodyear; The New Yorker; Jan 29, 2024.

See more usage examples of yonder in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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