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[ UK /jˈɒndɐ/ ]
[ US /ˈjɑndɝ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal)
    yonder valley
    what is yon place?
    the hills yonder
ADVERB
  1. at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is archaic and dialectal)
    scattered here and yon
    the house yonder

How To Use yonder In A Sentence

  • She tossed her mane a bit hither and then a bit yonder.
  • For example, I see in yonder cupboard near which you are standing, several of what you call boxes (but like everything else in Flatland, they have no tops nor bottoms) full of money; I see also two tablets of accounts. Flatland: a romance of many dimensions (Illustrated)
  • He whom the Apura name Jahveh hath passed yonder by the The World's Desire
  • Mistress Helen has quick news," said I. "She has a maid yonder, Dol Beag's lass, and she brought the word frae The McBrides A Romance of Arran
  • But we maun a 'live the day, and have our dinner; and there's Vich lan Vohr has packed his dorlach, and Mr. Waverley's wearied wi' majoring yonder afore the muckle pier-glass; and that grey auld stoor carle, the Baron o 'Bradwardine that shot young Waverley
  • What gentle ghost, besprent with April dew, Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?
  • -- I'se be caution the warst stibbler that ever stickit a sermon out ower the Tweed yonder, wad lay a ghaist twice as fast as him, wi 'his holy water and his idolatrous trinkets. Rob Roy — Volume 01
  • They wad hae seen my father's roof-tree fa 'down and smoor me before they wad hae gien a boddle a-piece to have propped it up -- but they could a' link out their fifty pounds ower head to bigg a hottle at the Well yonder. St. Ronan's Well
  • To the left we had the Champs-Elysees with their noble elms whose terminus is marked, off yonder on an elevation, by the great triumphal arch of Napoleon in the Place de L'Etoile. France Through Canadian Eyes
  • The amount they have in savings: ‘All the money I saved for when I get ready to retire is up yonder now at the hospital, and the doctors,’ Patsy says.
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