tomorrow

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English

Alternative forms

• to morrow (obsolete)
• to-morrow (dated)
• tomorrah (pronunciation spelling)
• tomorra (pronunciation spelling)

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /təˈmɒɹəʊ/, /təˈmʌɹəʊ/, (colloquial or dialectal) /təˈmɒɹə/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /təˈmɒɹəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /təˈmɑɹoʊ/, /tʊˈmɑɹoʊ/, (colloquial or dialectal) /təˈmɑɹə/
  • (Boston) IPA^(key): /təˈmɒɹoʊ/
  • (New York City, Philadelphia) IPA^(key): /təˈmɑɹə/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /təˈmɔɹoʊ/, /təˈmɒɹoʊ/, /təˈmɑɹoʊ/, /tʊ-/
• Rhymes: -ɒɹəʊ

Adverb

tomorrow (not comparable)

1. On the day after the present day.
2. At some point in the future; later on

3. (possibly obsolete) On next (period of time other than a day, such as a week or a month), following the present (period of time).
   • 1664 March 28, debate in Great Britain's House of Commons, printed in 1803 in the Journals of the House of Commons, page 538:

     Resolved, &c. That the House be Called over again on Tomorrow Month, being the Six-and-twentieth Day of April next.
4. (obsolete) On the next day (following some date in the past).
   • 1717 October 8, Robert Wodrow, in a letter to Mr. James Hart, printed in 1828, Robert Wodrow, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, page xxii:

     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 […]

Usage notes

Tomorrow does not necessarily refer to the next day as defined by a calendar, a clock’s time, but may refer to the remaining part of the current calendar day (and possibly also some part of the subsequent day) after sleeping and waking up again, especially if the speaker or recipient is about to go to sleep.

Antonyms

• yesterday

Translations

Noun

tomorrow (countable and uncountable, plural tomorrows)

1. (uncountable) The day after the present day.
2. (uncountable, countable) A future period or time.

Synonyms

• morrow

Antonyms

• yesterday

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• last night
• nudiustertian
• overmorrow
• today
• tonight
• yesterday
• tomorrower
• tomorrowness

Anagrams

• moorwort, rootworm, wormroot

Middle English

Adverb

tomorrow

1. alternative form of tomorwe

Noun

tomorrow (uncountable)

1. alternative form of tomorwe