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What is the difference between overmorrow and tomorrow?

overmorrow | tomorrow |

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

(-)
  • (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. }}
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  • , 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. }}
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  • , 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 . }}

    Antonyms

    * (obsolete) ereyesterday

    Noun

    (-)
  • (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. }}

    References

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    Antonyms

    * (obsolete) ereyesterday

    See also

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

    tomorrow

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (archaic)

    Adverb

    (-)
  • On the day after the present day.
  • Antonyms

    * yesterday

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The day after the present day.
  • Derived terms

    * tomorrow is another day * tomorrow night

    Synonyms

    * morrow

    Antonyms

    * yesterday

    See also

    * last night * nudiustertian * overmorrow * today * tonight * yesterday 1000 English basic words English pro-forms English temporal location adverbs English words prefixed with to-