tomorrowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Middle English tomorwe, tomorwen, from 古期英語 tō morgne (“tomorrow”, adverb), from tō (“at, on”) + morgne (dative of morgen (“morning”)), from Proto-Germanic *murganaz (“morning”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *mergʰ- (“to blink, to twinkle”), equivalent to to- +‎ morrow.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /təˈmɒɹəʊ/, /təˈmʌɹəʊ/, (口語 または dialectal) /təˈmɒɹə/
  • (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /təˈmɒɹəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /təˈmɑɹoʊ/, /tʊˈmɑɹoʊ/, (口語 または dialectal) /təˈmɑɹə/
  • (Boston) IPA^(key): /təˈmɒɹoʊ/
  • (NYC, Philadelphia) IPA^(key): /təˈmɑɹə/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /təˈmɔɹoʊ/
• 韻: -ɒɹəʊ

副詞

tomorrow (not comparable)

1. On the day after the present day.
   • 1855, Charles Dickens, “The Holly-tree. Third Branch—The Bill”, in Christmas Stories […] (The Works of Charles Dickens; XV), de luxe edition, London: Chapman and Hall, published 1881, →OCLC, page 63:

     It was eight o'clock to-morrow evening when I buckled up my travelling writing-desk in its leather case, paid my Bill, and got on my warm coats and wrappers.

2. At some point in the future; later on

   If you don’t get your life on track today, you’re going to be very sorry tomorrow.

3. (possibly obsolete) On next (period of time other than a day, such as a week または a month), following the present (period of time).
   • 1664 March 28, debate in Great Britain's House of Commons, printed in 1803 in the Journals of the House of Commons, page 538:

     Resolved, &c. That the House be Called over again on Tomorrow Month, being the Six-and-twentieth Day of April next.

   • 1840, Melancholy Death of Amelia V, in The Christian Guardian (かつ Church of England magazine), page 60:

     'You shall go to it on to-morrow week, so make haste and get well!'

4. (obsolete) On the next day (following some date in the past).
   • 1717 October 8, Robert Wodrow, in a letter to Mr. James Hart, printed in 1828, Robert Wodrow, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, page xxii:

     To prevent this, a committee for peace was proposed for to-morrow, who heard the ministers and Mr. Anderson upon the heads of the affair, but in vain; when their complaint was given in in Synod, and referred to the next Synod […]

   • 1817, James Kirkton, The Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland, page 126:

     […] after he hade drunk liberally in the Advocate's house that same day, went to bed in health, but was taken up stark dead to-morrow morning; and such was the testimony of honour heaven was pleased to allow Montrose's pompuous funerals.

反意語

• yesterday

名詞

tomorrow (複数形 tomorrows)

1. The day after the present day.

   Tomorrow will be sunny.

   • 1926, Dorothy Parker, “Godspeed”, in Enough Rope, page 69:

     Oh seek, my love, your newer way; / I'll not be left in sorrow. / So long as I have yesterday, / Go take your damned to-morrow!

同意語

• morrow

反意語

• yesterday

派生語

参考

• last night
• nudiustertian
• overmorrow
• today
• tonight
• yesterday
• tomorrower
• tomorrowness

アナグラム

• moorwort, rootworm, wormroot

名詞

to‐morrow (複数形 to-morrows)

1. Archaic spelling of tomorrow.
   • 1871 December 27 (indicated as 1872), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], chapter 1, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, London: Macmillan and Co., OCLC 1079211351:

     "Do you know what to-morrow is, Kitty?" Alice began.

   • 1891, Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed‎^[1], page 70:

     "Go home, Nilghai," said Dick; "go home to your lonely little bed, and leave me in peace. I am about to turn in till to-morrow."

   • 1910, J. O. P. Bland; E. Backhouse, China Under the Empress Dowager‎^[2], Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co., page 137:

     "You can cut my body down to-morrow morning, and then have it placed in some cool and shady spot. Fearing that possibly you might come in by accident and find me hanging, I have taken a dose of opium, so as to make certain of death. If you should dare to meddle with my private affairs, as you have been trying to do these past few days, it will only lead to your being mixed up in the case, which might bring you to grief.

   • 1924 June 7, Mallory, G, Dear Noel, Mount Everest:

     Dear Noel,
     We'll probably start early to-morrow (8th) to have clear weather. It won't be too early to start looking out for us either crossing the rockband under the pyramid or going up skyline at 8.0 p.m.
     Yours ever
     G Mallory

名詞

to‐morrow (複数形 to-morrows)

1. Obsolete spelling of tomorrow.

参考

• to‐day
• to‐night