Definition/Meaning of yon

• English - Determiner: yon (dated, dialectal) Distant , but within sight ; (that thing) just over there. He went to climb yon hill. 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC: Read…
• English - Adverb: yon (not comparable) (dated, dialectal, not comparable) yonder .
• English - Pronoun: yon (dated, dialectal) That one or those over there. 1828, James Hogg, Mary Burnet: As soon as old Andrew came home, his wife and he, as was natural, instantly began to converse on the events of the preceding night; and in the course of their conversation Andrew said, "Gudeness be about us' Jean, was not yon an awfu' speech o' our bairn's to young Jock Allanson last night?"
• English - Phrase: yon (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of yarn over needle . 2006, Heather Dixon, Not Your Mama's Knitting, page 222: Buttonhole row: (K1, p1) 3 times, yon , k2tog, (k1,p1) 5 times, yon , k2tog, […]
• English - Etymology: From Middle English yon , from Old English ġeon , from Proto-Germanic *jainaz. Cognate with Dutch geen and German jener .