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tomorrow

adv
/təˈmɒɹəʊ/UK/təˈmɔɹəw//təˈmɑɹoʊ/US/təˈmɔɹoʊ/CA

Etymology

From Middle English tomorwe, tomorwen, from Old English tō morgne (“tomorrow”, adverb), from tō (“at, on”) + morgne (dative of morgen (“morning”)), from Proto-Germanic *murganaz (“morning”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mergʰ- (“to blink, to twinkle”), equivalent to to- + morrow. Compare French demain, Dutch morgen, German morgen, Swedish imorgon or Danish i morgen.

  1. derived from *mergʰ-✻
  2. derived from *murganaz✻
  3. inherited from tō morgne
  4. inherited from tomorwe

Definitions

  1. On the day after the present day.

    • He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court to their sorrow, / Shall hear him harangue against Prior to morrow.
    • It was eight o'clock to-morrow evening when I buckled up my travelling writing-desk in its leather case, paid my Bill, and got on my warm coats and wrappers.

  2. At some point in the future

    At some point in the future; later on

    • If you don’t get your life on track today, you’re going to be very sorry tomorrow.

  3. On next (period of time other than a day, such as a week or a month), following the…

    On next (period of time other than a day, such as a week or a month), following the present (period of time).

    • Resolved, &c. That the House be Called over again on Tomorrow Month, being the Six-and-twentieth Day of April next.
    • 'You shall go to it on to-morrow week, so make haste and get well!'
  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. On the next day (following some date in the past).

      • To prevent this, a committee for peace was proposed for to-morrow, who heard the ministers and Mr. Anderson upon the heads of the affair, but in vain; when their complaint was given in in Synod, and referred to the next Synod […]
      • […] after he hade drunk liberally in the Advocate's house that same day, went to bed in health, but was taken up stark dead to-morrow morning; and such was the testimony of honour heaven was pleased to allow Montrose's pompuous funerals.

    2. The day after the present day.

      • Tomorrow will be sunny.
      • 'Go home, Nilghai,' said Dick; 'go home to your lonely little bed, and leave me in peace. I am about to turn in till to-morrow.'
      • Oh seek, my love, your newer way; / I'll not be left in sorrow. / So long as I have yesterday, / Go take your damned to-morrow!

    3. A future period or time.

      • Live for what tomorrow has to offer, not for what yesterday has taken away.
      • It’s 1965 and we certainly welcome this new year with hopes that all of our tomorrows will bring happiness.
      • Surgoinsville, Tennessee, hasn’t had a doctor since 1965. That’s when the community’s only doctor died. Day after day, Surgoinsville’s modern medical clinic stands empty, useless. […] Surgoinsville’s clinic faces a lot of empty tomorrows.

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Derived

are you doing anything tomorrow, as if there is no tomorrow, as if there's no tomorrow, as if there was no tomorrow, as if there were no tomorrow, better an egg today than a hen tomorrow, day after tomorrow, jam tomorrow, like there is no tomorrow, like there's no tomorrow, like there was no tomorrow, like there were no tomorrow, never put off until tomorrow what you can do today, next tomorrow, you tomorrow, sure as the sun is going to come up tomorrow, sure as the sun is going to come up tomorrow morning, sure as the sun is going to rise tomorrow, sure as the sun is going to rise tomorrow morning, tomorrow is another day, tomorrow never comes, tomorrow night, tomorrow's chip paper, two days after tomorrow, yesterday-today-and-tomorrow, yesterday-today-tomorrow

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for tomorrow. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA