Word OriginOld English geon, of Germanic origin; related to German jener ‘that one’.
Idioms
See yon in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryhither and thither | hither and yon
- (especially literary) in many different directions
- People began rushing hither and thither.
- The rats darted hither and yon, as if looking for an exit.
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