tomorrow
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /təˈmɒɹəʊ/
ipa: /təˈmʌɹəʊ/
ipa: /təˈmɒɹə/
ipa: /təˈmɒɹəʊ/
ipa: /ðəˈmɒɹæ/
ipa: /təˈmɑɹoʊ/
ipa: /tʊˈmɑɹoʊ/
ipa: /təˈmɑɹə/
ipa: /təˈmɒɹoʊ/
ipa: /təˈmɑɹə/
ipa: /təˈmɔɹoʊ/
ipa: /təˈmɒɹoʊ/
ipa: /təˈmɑɹoʊ/
ipa: /tʊ-/
rhymes: -ɒɹəʊ
Forms: form: tomorrows
form: to morrow
form: to-morrow
form: tomorrah
form: tomorra
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.
Senses: examples: text: Tomorrow will be sunny.
text: '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.'
ref: 1891 January, Rudyard Kipling, chapter IV, in The Light that Failed, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published March 1891, →OCLC, page 70:
text: 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!
ref: 1926, Dorothy Parker, “Godspeed”, in Enough Rope, page 69:
glosses: The day after the present day.
examples: text: It’s 1965 and we certainly welcome this new year with hopes that all of our tomorrows will bring happiness.
ref: 1965, American Flint, volume 55, page 28:
text: 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.
ref: 1978, Alan S. Berger, quoting “The doctor won’t be in today or tomorrow”, The City: Urban Communities and Their Problems, Dubuque, Ia.: Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, →ISBN, page 359:
text: Additionally, programs such as our Televised Graduate Engineering Instruction effort, designed to allow engineers in the field to benefit from the latest research at our engineering schools, and the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, which will spur research in high-energy-particle physics, will help Virginia as well as the entire Southeast enter the brave new high-tech world of tomorrow.
ref: 1991, Charles S[pittal] Robb, “The Age of Limits: Its Challenges and Opportunities”, in Robert D. Behn, editor, Governors on Governing, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 10:
glosses: A future period or time.
Synonyms: morrow
Derived terms: 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
Related terms: last night
nudiustertian
overmorrow
today
tonight
yesterday
tomorrower
tomorrowness