yond

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/jɒnd/

adjective

Further; more distant.

OriginMiddle English yond ← Old English ġeond →
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Meanings

yond1

adjectiveyond (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteFurther; more distant.
  2. not comparableobsoleteYonder.

    Nightly she sings on yond Pomgranet tree,

    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]
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    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. 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

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

    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]
adverbyond (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteYonder.

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

    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]

yond2

adjective
  1. obsoleteFurious; mad; angry; fierce.

    Emongst the shepheard swaynes, then wexeth wood & yond

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 40

Origin

yond · adjective, adverb

  1. Old Englishġeond
  2. Middle Englishyond
  3. Englishyond

From Middle English yond, from Old English ġeond.

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yond · adjective

  1. Old Englishonda
  2. Middle Englishonde“malice, ill-will”
  3. Englishyond

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

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with yond

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Anagrams

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APA

yond. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yond

MLA

“yond.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yond. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “yond,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/yond.

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