yond

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /jɒnd/

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• Rhymes: -ɒnd

Etymology 1

From Middle English yond, from Old English ġeond.

Adjective

yond (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Further; more distant.
2. (obsolete) Yonder.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:

     Nightly she sings on yond Pomgranet tree,

   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals), lines 46-48:

     Last night of all,
     When yond same star that’s westward from the pole
     Had made his course t' illume that part of heaven.

   • c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:

     See you yond coign o' the Capitol, yond corner-stone?

Adverb

yond (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Yonder.
   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     The fringed curtains of thine eye advance,
     And say what thou seest yond.

See also

• beyond

Etymology 2

From Middle English onde (“malice, ill-will”), from Old English onda, anda (“envy, jealousy; hatred, anger”).

Adjective

yond

1. (obsolete) Furious; mad; angry; fierce.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 40:

     Emongst the shepheard swaynes, then wexeth wood & yond

Anagrams

• dyno, dyon