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 […]

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