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tomorrow, adv. and n.|təˈmɒrəʊ|
Forms: α. 3 to moruwe, 3–5 to morewe, 3–6 to morowe, to morwe, 4 to morȝe. β. 4 to moru, 5 to morw, to morow, 5–6 to morrowe, 6 tomorow, 6–8 to morrow, 6– tomorrow, to-morrow. Regularly written as two words till 1500 and usually so till c 1750.
[ME. from to morȝen, to morwen (see to-morn), with dropping of final -n, and later of -e, as in inflexions of nouns and vbs., etc. When the final e was lost, w was vocalized to -ow, as in arrow, borrow, sorrow. Cf. morrow.]
A. adv.
1. a. For or on the day after today; for or on the morrow.
c1275Passion our Lord 140 in O.E. Misc. 41 Er hit beo day to morewe al oþer hit schal go. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 393/29 Þus time to-moruwe cum aȝein. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 2838 Hii wolleþ tomorwe ariue at te hauene of toteneys. c1320Sir Tristr. 2089 To morwe y schal hir se. c1380Sir Ferumb. 3513 To-morȝe on þe spryng of þe day..to þe pauyllouns take þe way. 1382Wyclif Ecclus. xx. 16 To day leeneth a man, and to moru [1388 to morewe] he asketh it bi ple. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 1544 Thanne helpe me lord tomorwe in my bataille. 1426Audelay Poems 25 To-morw or hit be day. 1484Caxton Fables of æsop v. viii, To morowe on the mornyng..sende me a dyssh ful of mylk. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 368 Euery day in the weeke it was sayde, he departeth to morwe. a1628Preston New Covt. (1634) 435 This doing of it now, and now, and to morrow, and to morrow, these little distances deceive us, and delude us. 1709Prior Song ‘If wine & music have the power’, But She to Morrow will return. 1897Outing (U.S.) XXIX. 383/2 ‘Sometime; not to-day; to-morrow’. This is the stereotyped answer which a Turk has always at his tongue's end.
b. in antithesis to to-day: see today A. 1 b.
c. fig. In the (near) future.
1871, etc. [see jam tomorrow s.v. jam n.2 b]. 1957Listener 15 Aug. 223/1 An accelerated movement towards independence: Ghana yesterday; Nigeria, French West Africa, the Cameroons, tomorrow.
†2. On the morrow after the day mentioned. Sc. Obs.
a1699J. Kirkton Hist. Ch. Scot. (1817) 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. 1717Wodrow Let. to J. Hart 8 Oct., A committee for peace was proposed to-morrow, who heard the ministers and Mr. Anderson upon the heads of complaint.
B. n.
1. The day after this day; the next succeeding day; the morrow.
a. after till, unto, from, where it may be adv.b. clearly n.
a.c1386Chaucer Melib. ⁋829 The goodnesse þat thou mayst do this day, do it,..ne delaye it nat til to morwe. 1485Caxton Chas. Gt. ii. ii. xi. 121 It is better to abyde tyl to morowe. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 98 b, Knowest thou whether he shall liue vnto to morowe.
b.1535Coverdale Prov. xxvii. 1 Make not thy boost of tomorow. 1600Fairfax Tasso vi. v, To morrowes sun shall spread his timely raies. a1667Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose, Danger Procrastination, Our Yesterdays To morrow now is gone. 1711Addison Spect. No. 163 ⁋11 A..Story..which I shall relate at length in my To-morrow's Paper. 1758Franklin Prel. Addr. Pennsylv. Alm., One to-day is worth two to-morrows. 1832Tennyson May Queen i, To-morrow 'ill be the happiest time of all the glad New-year. 1838Longfellow Psalm Life iii, To act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day.
2. fig. The (near) future. Freq. in the possessive.
1943J. B. Priestley Daylight on Saturday ii. 5 He belonged to tomorrow's new ruling class. 1959Brno Studies in English I. 73 Progressive poets preferred to look forward into distant future and dreamed..of a better to-morrow. 1979Guardian 30 Oct. 32/8 The Prime Minister..told the Wales TUC that British industry was not going to get tomorrow's jobs ‘unless we move into tomorrow's world’.
3. attrib. with times of the day: tomorrow morning, tomorrow forenoon, tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening, tomorrow night, tomorrow dinner-time; also † tomorrow day. The combination is used both as n. and as adv.
c1275Lay. 17732 Are to morewe heue. 1382Wyclif Acts xxiii. 20 That to morwe day thou bringe forth Poul into the counceil. 1470–85Malory Arthur i. xxiii. 70 He commaunded that..his best hors and armour..be withoute the cyte or to morowe daye. 1539Bible (Great) Matt. vi. 34 Care not then for the morow, for to morowe day shall care for it selfe. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. iii. i. 161, I wil come to your worship to morrow morning. 1596― 1 Hen. IV, ii. iv. 564, I will by to morrow Dinner time, Send him to answere thee. 1681Otway Soldier's Fort. iii. i, He shall be Crows-meats by to-morrow Night. 1782F. Burney Cecilia viii. iii, To-morrow morning I shall but call to see how she is. Mod. Can you spend to-morrow evening with us?
4. Phrase. tomorrow come never, a day that will never arrive; ‘when two Sundays meet together’; ‘on the Greek Kalends’.
1725Bailey Erasm. Colloq. (1878) I. 70 He shall have it in a very little Time... When? To morrow come never? [orig. ad Calendas Græcas]. 1770Colman Man & Wife iii. 46 Marc. Very soon, my dear! to-day, or to-morrow, perhaps. Sally. To-morrow come never, I believe. 1825Brockett N.C. Gloss. s.v. Nivver, To-morrow come nivver—when two Sundays meet together.
5. as if there were no tomorrow and varr., recklessly, with no regard for the future.
1862G. J. Whyte-Melville Queen's Maries II. xxii. 10 Why should you thus risk your life as if there was no to-morrow? 1980Guardian Weekly 3 Feb. 1/3 Oil supplies that Americans at home continue to consume as though there were no tomorrow.
6. Proverb. tomorrow is another (or † a new) day.
c1527J. Rastell Calisto & Melebea sig. C1v, Well mother to morrow is a new day. 1603Florio tr. Montaigne's Ess. II. iv. 57 A letter..beeing delivered him..at supper, he deferred the opening of it, pronouncing this by⁓word, To morrow is a new day. 1824Scott St. Ronan's III. vii. 192 We will say no more of it at present... To⁓morrow is a new day. 1927P. Green Field God i. 148 Go to it, you Mag and Lonie! To-morrow's another day, and you'll need all you can hold. 1956M. Dickens Angel in Corner vi. 90 ‘You can run along now... Those few letters will keep until the morning.’.. ‘But there will be a whole heap of new ones by the morning.’.. ‘I know, dear... If the letters didn't come, that would be the time to start worrying. But tomorrow is another day.’ 1980B. Pym Few Green Leaves xiii. 107 He would probably have said nothing and so missed his opportunity. Still, tomorrow was another day.
Hence (nonce-wds.) toˈmorrower, one who puts off till tomorrow; a procrastinator; toˈmorrowing a., that procrastinates; toˈmorrowness, the distinctive quality of being tomorrow.
1810Coleridge Lett., to Wife (1895) 563 He is as great a to-morrower to the full as your poor husband. 1880G. Meredith Tragic Com. xiv, The postponer, the deferrer, or, as we might say, the to-morrower. 1824J. McCulloch Scotl. IV. 300 The Cras hoc fiet of this tomorrowing country. 1897Bookman Nov. 235 If to-morrow..in its essential to-morrowness, has no objective existence. |