yond
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /jɒnd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒnd
Etymology 1
From Middle English yond, from Old English ġeond.
Adjective
yond (not comparable)
- (obsolete) further; more distant
- (obsolete) yonder
- 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?
- 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.
Adverb
yond (not comparable)
- (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
Etymology 2
From Middle English onde (“malice, ill-will”), from Old English onda, anda (“envy, jealousy; hatred, anger”).
Adjective
yond
- (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