What is the difference between overmorrow and tomorrow?
overmorrow | tomorrow |
(obsolete) On the day after tomorrow.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1535
, first = Myles
, last = Coverdale
, authorlink = Myles Coverdale
, title = The Byble, that is, the Holy Scrypture of the Olde and New Te?tament, faythfully tran?lated into Engly?he
, section = Tobit 8:4
, page = D.iiij
, url = http://www.bibles-online.net/1535/Apocrypha/3-Tobit/
, passage = Th? ?pake Tobias unto the virgin, and ?ayde: Up Sara, let us make oure prayer unto God to daye, tomorow, and ouermorow : for the?e thre nightes wil we reconcyle oure ?elues with God: and whan the thirde holy night is pa?t, we ?hall ioyne together in ye deutye of mariage.
, transliteration = Then spake Tobias unto the virgin, and said: Up Sara, let us make our prayer unto God today, tomorrow, and overmorrow : for these three nights will we reconcile ourselves with God, and when the third holy night is past, we shall join together in the duty of marriage.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1925
, title = Parliamentary Debates: Official Report
, volume = 188
, publisher = H.M. Stationery Off.
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=xswtAAAAYAAJ&q=overmorrow&dq=overmorrow
, page = iv
, passage = We can go not overmorrow , but on Thursday.
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 1969
, first = James
, last = Klugman
, title = History of the Communist Party of Great Britain: The General Strike, 1925-1927
, volume = 2
, quotee = Bucharin
, publisher = Lawrence & Wishart
, location = London
, page = 73
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=kwCJAAAAMAAJ&q=overmorrow&dq=overmorrow
, passage = Sinowjeff and myself go to Caucasus overmorrow .
}}
(obsolete) The day after tomorrow.
* {{quote-book
, year = 1898
, title = The first part of the tragedy of Faust
, author = Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
, authorlink = Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
, publisher = Longmans, Green and Co.
, page = 197
, pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=MTcTAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA197&dq=overmorrow
, passage = My prescient limbs already borrow
From rare Walpurgis-night a glow :
It comes round on the overmorrow —
Then why we are awake we know. }} On the day after the present day.
As adverbs the difference between overmorrow and tomorrow
is that overmorrow is on the day after tomorrow while tomorrow is on the day after the present day.As nouns the difference between overmorrow and tomorrow
is that overmorrow is the day after tomorrow while tomorrow is the day after the present day.overmorrow
English
Adverb
(-)Antonyms
* (obsolete) ereyesterdayNoun
(-)From rare Walpurgis-night a glow :
It comes round on the overmorrow —
Then why we are awake we know. }}
