Yon

Definition: Yon

Yon

Adjective

1. Distant but within sight; "yonder valley"; "the hills yonder"; (`yon' is dialectal, as in "what is yon place?").

Adverb

1. At or in an indicated (usually distant) place; "the house yonder"; (`yon' is archaic and dialectal as in "scattered here and yon"- Calder Willingham).

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "yon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonym: Yon

Distance

Adjective: distant; far off, far away; remote, telescopic, distal, wide of; stretching to; Verb: yon, yonder; ulterior; transmarine, transpontine, transatlantic, transalpine; tramontane; ultramontane, ultramundane; hyperborean, antipodean; inaccessible, out of the way; unapproached, unapproachable; incontiguous.

Evolution

Adverb: to and fro, up and down, backwards and forwards, hither and yon, seesaw, zigzag, wibble-wabble, in and out, from side to side, like buckets in a well.

Speciality

This, that; yon, yonder.

Crosswords: Yon

Haitian Creole (a, an, one).

Yon meat, 'tis sweet as summer's wafting breeze. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Her skin like the lily that grows in yon valley (Factory Girl; performing artist: The Roches)

Heather and Yon (1944)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Down in Yon Forst/O (reference)

• John Baptist de La Salle and special education : a study of Saint Yon (reference)

• Khun Chang-Khun Phn: Chabap Yon Tamnan (reference)

• Yon Roi Pritsana-- Rongthao Dokbua Thongkham (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Now, praised be Allah! : If yon vision be real it looks as though my long ride ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Yon Yonson. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expression using "yon": hither and yon. Additional references.

Ending with "yon": La-roche-sur-yon, nace-yon.

Afrikaans

ginds (at that place, over there, there, yonder), ginder (at that place, over there, there, yonder), daarso (at that place, over there, there, yonder), daar gunter (at that place, over there, there, yonder), daar gunder (over there, yonder), daar (at, at that place, over there, there, yonder), aldaar (at, at that place, over there, there, yonder). (various references)

Albanian

atje (at that place, over there, there, thither, yonder). (various references)

Arabic 

‏هناك (there, thither, yonder), ‏هنالك (there, there is, yonder). (various references)

Bulgarian 

който се вижда в далечината, оня там, натам (yonder), ей там (yonder). (various references)

Czech

onen (that). (various references)

Dutch

'r (at that place, her, his, its, over there, their, there, yonder), ginds (at that place, over there, there, yonder), ginder (at that place, over there, there, yonder), er (at that place, it, no translation, over there, there, untranslated, yonder), d'r (at that place, her, his, its, over there, their, there, yonder), daarginds (at that place, over there, there, yonder), daar (as, at that place, because, for, for the reason that, it, over there, since, there, yonder), aldaar (at that place, over there, there, yonder). (various references)

Faeroese

har (at that place, over there, there, yonder). (various references)

Farsi 

ان یکی دیگر, ان (Instant, It, Minute, Moment, That, Yond), شخص ان طرفی . (various references)

Finnish

siellä (at that place, over there, there, yonder). (various references)

French

y (yonder), l� (yonder). (various references)

Frisian

er (at that place, he, over there, there, yonder), dêre (at that place, over there, there, yonder), dêr (at that place, over there, there, yonder). (various references)

German

jener, jene, jenes, dort (at that place, over there, there, therein, yonder), da (as, at that, at that place, because, behold, for, for the reason that, here, here are, here is, here you are, in, inasmuch as, look, over there, since, so, that, then, there, to that, yonder). (various references)

Greek 

εκείνοσ (he, that, yonder), εκεί πέρα (over there, yonder). (various references)

Hawaiian

aty (at that place, over there, there, yonder), atje (at that place, over there, there, yonder). (various references)

Hungarian

amott (over there, there, yonder), amaz (that, that one, yonder). (various references)

Icelandic

þar (at that place, over there, there, yonder). (various references)

Italian

li (at, at that place, over there, them, there, yonder), laggiú (at, at that place, over there, there, yonder), l� (at, at that place, over there, that, that one, that way, the, there, thither, yonder). (various references)

Norwegian

der (at that place, over there, there, yonder). (various references)

Papiamen

ei (at that place, over there, there, yonder), aya (at that place, over there, there, yonder). (various references)

Pig Latin

yonay

Polish

tam (at that place, over there, there, yonder). (various references)

Portuguese

além (above, after-life, beyond, further, further on, over there, past, straight past, there, upward, yet, yonder), acolá (beyond, there, yonder). (various references)

Romanian

acolo (at that place, over, over there, there, therein, thither, thitherward, yonder). (various references)

Russian 

там (there, thereat, therein, there's, whenever possible, wherein), вон тот (yonder). (various references)

Scottish

ud (over yonder, that, that one, yonder, yonder; ud thall), sud (that there : an sud, yonder). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

taj (that, very), onaj (that, yonder). (various references)

Spanish

allí (at that place, over there, there, yonder), ahí (at that place, over there, there, yonder). (various references)

Sranan

sosey (over there, yonder). (various references)

Swahili

pale (at that place, over there, there, yonder), mle (at that place, over there, there, yonder), kule (at that place, over there, there, yonder). (various references)

Swedish

den där (that, yonder), där (at that place, over there, there, where, whereat, yonder). (various references)

Turkish

oradaki (thither, yonder), orada (there, thereat, therein, yonder), şuradaki (there, yonder), şurada (there, yonder), ötedeki (farther, further, ulterior, yonder), ötede (beyond, further, further on, over). (various references)

Ukrainian

ось туди (yonder), ось той, он там (yonder). (various references)

Zulu

lapho (at that place, over there, there, yonder). (various references)

ibi, illic. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "yon": yond, yonder, yoni, yonic, yonis, yonker, yonkers. (additional references)

Words ending with "yon": antibaryon, baryon, canyon, carryon, crayon, embryon, halcyon, heterokaryon, hypopyon, perikaryon, pinyon, rayon, ronyon, sabayon, synkaryon, tachyon, tardyon, toyon. (additional references)

Words containing "yon": alcyonarian, alcyonarians, amphictyonic, amphictyonies, amphictyony, antibaryons, anyone, baryonic, baryons, bayonet, bayoneted, bayoneting, bayonets, bayonetted, bayonetting, beyond, beyonds, bryonies, bryony, canyons, carryons, crayoned, crayoning, crayonist, crayonists, crayons, cryonic, cryonics, embryonal, embryonated, embryonic, embryonically, embryons, everyone, extraembryonic, halcyons, heterokaryons, hypopyons, lyonnaise, mayonnaise, mayonnaises, myoneural, pinyons, polyembryonic, polyembryonies, polyembryony, polyonymous, postembryonal, postembryonic, rayons, ronyons. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Yon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ayon, byon, dydon, gyno, gyon, myon, nyon, Vyon, yahn, yan, yani, yano, ydo, yeon, ygn, yinn, yinz, ymo, yn, yno, yo, yoa, yoan, yod, yof, yog, yoh, yohn, yoi, yoin, yok, yol, yonc, yone, yong, yonk, yons, yont, yony, yoo, yoog, yoom, yoon, yop, yoq, yor, yorn, Yos, youn, yov, yown, yoy, yoz, ypn, yun. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: no, on, oy, yo.

+1 letter: bony, cony, mony, nosy, only, onyx, pony, tony, yond, yoni.

+2 letters: agony, annoy, anomy, atony, boney, bonny, coney, conky, corny, crony, cyano, cyton, donsy, downy, doyen, ebony, enjoy, envoy, goony, gyron, honey, honky, horny, hyson, irony, loony, money, moony, nobby, nobly, noddy, noily, noisy, nonyl, nooky, nosey, noway, nylon, onery, peony, phony, porny, pylon, rayon, snowy, sonly, sonny, sonsy, stony, synod, toney, towny, toyon, uncoy, wonky, yapon, yogin, yonic, yonis, young, yourn, yupon.