Loading page
say it: yahn
yon is an adjective and adverb meaning "distant but within sight (`yon' is dialectal)". It carries 2 recorded senses.
at or in an indicated (usually distant) place (`yon' is archaic and dialectal)
“the house yonder”
“scattered here and yon”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for yon come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.