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yonder

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yon·der  (yndr)
adv.
In or at that indicated place: the house over yonder.
adj.
Being at an indicated distance, usually within sight: "Yonder hills," he said, pointing.
pron.
One that is at an indicated place, usually within sight.

[Middle English, from yond, yond; see yond.]
Regional Note: The adverb yonder, from Old English geond, is not exclusively Southern but is more frequently used there than in any other region of the United States, and not only by older or uneducated speakers. Yonder is not merely a Southern synonym for there, which in the South tends to mean "only a few feet from the speaker." Yonder carries with it an inherent sense of distance farther than "there" and is used if the person or thing indicated can be seen: the shed over yonder. Or it might be nearby but completely out of sight, as in the next room.

yonder
Adverb
over there
Adjective
situated over there: a tree at yonder waterfall [Old English geond]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.yonder - distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal); "yonder valley"; "the hills yonder"; "what is yon place?"
distant - separated in space or coming from or going to a distance; "distant villages"; "the sound of distant traffic"; "a distant sound"; "a distant telephone call"
Adv.1.yonder - at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is archaic and dialectal); "the house yonder"; "scattered here and yon"- Calder Willingham
Translations

yonder [ˈjɔndəʳ] advallá (a lo lejos)
yonder [ˈjɔndəʳ] advlà(-bas)
yonder [ˈjɔndəʳ] adv (over) yonder → dort drüben adj from yonder house → von dem Haus dort drüben
yonder [ˈjɔndəʳ] adv


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Lo, said Merlin, yonder is that sword that I spake of.
Who is that smooth-faced, animated outrage yonder in the fine clothes?
Well, one Sunday morning I was sitting out here in front of my cabin, with my cat, taking the sun, and looking at the blue hills, and listening to the leaves rustling so lonely in the trees, and thinking of the home away yonder in the states, that I hadn't heard from in thirteen years, when a bluejay lit on that house, with an acorn in his mouth, and says,
 
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