different between overmorrow vs tomorrow

English

Etymology

From Middle English overmorwe, from Old English *ofermorgen. Compare Dutch overmorgen, German übermorgen, Swedish övermorgon, Danish overmorgen, Norwegian Bokmål overmorgen (also overimorgen), Norwegian Nynorsk overmorgon.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -????

Adverb

overmorrow (not comparable)

1. (archaic) On the day after tomorrow.

   Antonym: (obsolete) ereyesterday

Translations

Noun

overmorrow (uncountable)

1. (archaic) The day after tomorrow.

   Antonym: (obsolete) ereyesterday

Translations

See also

• in three days
• last night
• nudiustertian (of the day before yesterday)
• today
• tomorrow
• tomorrow night
• tonight
• yesterday

References

• overmorrow in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

English

Alternative forms

• to-morrow (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English tomorwe, tomorwen, from Old English t?morgen, t? morgenne, t?mergen (“tomorrow”, adverb), from t? (“at, on”) + morgene, mergen (dative of morgen (“morning”)), from Proto-Germanic *murganaz (“morning”), perhaps, from Proto-Indo-European *merg?- (“to blink, to twinkle”), equivalent to to- +? morrow.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t??m????/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /t??m????/, /t??m????/
• (Boston) IPA^(key): /t??m??o?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /t??m??o?/, /t??m??o?/
• (NYC, Philadelphia) IPA^(key): /t??m???/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /t??m??o?/
• Rhymes: -????

Adverb

tomorrow (not comparable)

1. On the day after the present day.
   • 1855, Charles Dickens, The Holly-Tree

     It was eight o'clock to-morrow evening when I buckled up my travelling writing-desk in its leather case, paid my Bill, and got on my warm coats and wrappers.

2. At some point in the future; later on

   If you don't get your life on track today, you're going to be very sorry tomorrow.

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.

   • 1840, Melancholy Death of Amelia V, in The Christian Guardian (and Church of England magazine), page 60:

     'You shall go to it on to-morrow week, so make haste and get well!'

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 […]

   • 1817, James Kirkton, The Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland, page 126:

     […] after he hade drunk liberally in the Advocate's house that same day, went to bed in health, but was taken up stark dead to-morrow morning; and such was the testimony of honour heaven was pleased to allow Montrose's pompuous funerals.

Antonyms

• yesterday

Translations

Noun

tomorrow (plural tomorrows)

1. The day after the present day.

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