yon

[ yon ]

adjective

1. yonder.

pronoun

1. that or those yonder.

yon

/ jɒnd; jɒn /

determiner

1. 1. an archaic or dialect word for that

      yon man

   2. ( as pronoun )

      yon's a fool

2. variants of yonder

Word History and Origins

Origin of yon¹

First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English geon; akin to Dutch gene, German jener, Old Norse enn, inn “the,” Gothic jains “that”

Word History and Origins

Origin of yon¹

Old English geon; related to Old Frisian jen, Old High German jenēr, Old Norse enn, Gothic jains

Idioms and Phrases

see hither and thither (yon) .

Example Sentences

On this week’s episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick was joined by Katherine Yon Ebright, from the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, to discuss whether Trump could dust off this 226-year-old statute to carry out his promised mass deportations of noncitizens.

From Slate

Katherine Yon Ebright: The actual promise to use the Alien Enemies Act for mass deportations was first raised by Trump, and even before that, by anti-immigration groups in the late summer of 2023.

From Slate

On this week’s Amicus podcast, Dahlia Lithwick asks Katherine Yon Ebright to help the rest of us catch up with her deep dive on this dangerous law, and to explain why we should take the threats to use it literally and seriously.

From Slate

Toward the end of the summer of 2023, Katherine Yon Ebright, counsel in the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program, noticed that rightwing anti immigration groups and the Trump campaign had started talking in earnest about using a very old law with a very dark history, in order to do very chilling things to immigrants.

From Slate

Katherine Yon Ebright, an attorney at the Brennan Center for Justice, argued in an analysis of the law that courts would likely avoid opining on the presence or absence of an invasion, or whether the perpetrator of the alleged invasion is a foreign nation or government.

From Los Angeles Times

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