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# yonder

«yonder» in Mova's school dictionary: **Over there; at some distance but within sight: the hill…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb and adjective (yonder — old or dialect); pronoun (yonder, very old)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Over there; at some distance but within sight: the hill yonder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yonder/#m1)

2) That … over there: yonder tree. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yonder/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

An old and country word. You meet it in old books, poems, songs, the Bible and cowboy films: «over yonder», «the wild blue yonder» (the open sky). In The Wind in the Willows and other classics, country folk point to «yonder» farm or wood. Still heard in parts of the southern USA and rural Britain and Ireland.

### examples

- See yonder hill? Our cottage is just behind it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yonder/#x1)
- The farmer pointed to the wood yonder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yonder/#x2)
- «Who lives in yonder house?» asked the traveller. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yonder/#x3)
- They rode off into the wild blue yonder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yonder/#x4)
- The river bends over yonder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yonder/#x5)
- Yonder stands the old mill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yonder/#x6)
- Don't you see the farm-house yonder? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yonder/#x7)

### note

Old-fashioned or dialect; in everyday writing say «over there» or «that one over there». Often «over yonder».

### In the corpora

- [And yonder comes the famous Mr.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/73-willows-ch12-part4-an-altered-toad/34/)
- [And he said unto Balak: 'Stand here by thy burnt-offering, while I go toward a meeting yonder.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/NUM.850/)
- [Those yonder lift up their voice, they sing for joy; for the majesty of the LORD they shout from the sea:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.500/)
- [Yonder sea, great and wide, therein are creeping things innumerable, living creatures, both small and great.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1849/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «yonder» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yonder/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.