tomorrow
adverbnountop 1 000 in film dialogue
- United Kingdom//təˈmɒɹəʊ//
- United Kingdom//təˈmɔɹəw//
- //ðəˈmɒɹæ//
On the day after the present day.
adverb
- 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; later on
If you don’t get your life on track today, you’re going to be very sorry tomorrow.
- 3
obsoleteOn 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
obsoleteOn 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.
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.
noun
- 1
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!
- 2
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.
Forms
- plural
- tomorrows
tomorrow · On the day after the present day.
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