Post by t-bob on May 23, 2019 23:59:11 GMT -5
OVERMORROW
noun
1. the day after tomorrow: I’ve heard that tomorrow and overmorrow may bring exceptionally high waves.
adverb
1. on the day after tomorrow: If we leave overmorrow, we should not miss a day of the festival.
Quotes
It comes round on the overmorrow— / Then why we wake we know aright. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), Faust, translated by Thomas E. Webb, 1880 "Do ye stop in tha cove over 'morrow, Ralph?" she asked, with a sanguine intonation. -- W. F. Alexander, "Down Zabuloe Way," The Gentleman's Magazine, August 1898
Origin
Overmorrow had a brief history, first recorded in the first half of the 16th century and lasting into the second half of that same century. The rare word occurred in the phrase “today, tomorrow, and overmorrow.”
noun
1. the day after tomorrow: I’ve heard that tomorrow and overmorrow may bring exceptionally high waves.
adverb
1. on the day after tomorrow: If we leave overmorrow, we should not miss a day of the festival.
Quotes
It comes round on the overmorrow— / Then why we wake we know aright. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), Faust, translated by Thomas E. Webb, 1880 "Do ye stop in tha cove over 'morrow, Ralph?" she asked, with a sanguine intonation. -- W. F. Alexander, "Down Zabuloe Way," The Gentleman's Magazine, August 1898
Origin
Overmorrow had a brief history, first recorded in the first half of the 16th century and lasting into the second half of that same century. The rare word occurred in the phrase “today, tomorrow, and overmorrow.”