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TOMORROW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The day after today
Example:
what are our tasks for tomorrow?
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("tomorrow" is a kind of...):
24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The near future
Example:
everyone hopes for a better tomorrow
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("tomorrow" is a kind of...):
future; futurity; hereafter; time to come (the time yet to come)
II. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The next day, the day after, following the present day
Classified under:
Context examples:
You'll have your mouthful of rum tomorrow, and go hang.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
So, if you are not against it, I will write to my poor sister tomorrow, and make the proposal; and, as soon as matters are settled, I will engage to get the child to Mansfield; you shall have no trouble about it.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Thank God, we leave this vile place tomorrow.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
“Dora is coming to stay with me. She is coming home with me the day after tomorrow. If you would like to call, I am sure papa would be happy to see you.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Some English girls and boys are coming to see me tomorrow and I want to have a jolly time.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But tomorrow I think I shall certainly be able to call in Berkeley Street, and be introduced to your friend Mrs. Jennings.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
"Very well, I will give you that sort of courage tomorrow," replied Oz.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
And one day when the shepherd and his wife were standing together before the house the shepherd said, “I will shoot old Sultan tomorrow morning, for he is of no use now.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
On the evening previous to her being brought to my home, my mother had said playfully, “I have a pretty present for my Victor—tomorrow he shall have it.”
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
“We sail tomorrow!”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
