YON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does yon mean? 

• YON (adjective)
  The adjective YON has 1 sense:

1. distant but within sight ('yon' is dialectal)

  Familiarity information: YON used as an adjective is very rare.

• YON (adverb)
  The adverb YON has 1 sense:

1. at or in an indicated (usually distant) place ('yon' is archaic and dialectal)

  Familiarity information: YON used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• YON (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Distant but within sight ('yon' is dialectal)

Synonyms:

yon; yonder

Context example:

what is yon place?

Similar:

distant (separated in space or coming from or going to a distance)

• YON (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At or in an indicated (usually distant) place ('yon' is archaic and dialectal)

Synonyms:

yon; yonder

Context example:

scattered here and yon

 Context examples 

When I at last inquired on what his thoughts were so bent, he replied: “On what's afore me, Mas'r Davy; and over yon.” “On the life before you, do you mean?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And how of yon gray turret on the left?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Look at that castle which overhangs yon precipice; and that also on the island, almost concealed amongst the foliage of those lovely trees; and now that group of labourers coming from among their vines; and that village half hid in the recess of the mountain.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“Ay, Mas'r Davy. I doen't rightly know how 'tis, but from over yon there seemed to me to come—the end of it like,” looking at me as if he were waking, but with the same determined face.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)