tomorrowとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 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. Compare French demain, Dutch morgen, German morgen, Swedish imorgon or Danish i morgen.

発音

• (英国発音)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /təˈmɒɹəʊ/
  • (Northumbria) IPA: /ðəˈmɒɹæ/
  • IPA: /təˈmɒɹəʊ/, /təˈmʌɹəʊ/
  • (colloquial or dialectal) IPA: /təˈmɒɹə/
• (General American)
  • (Boston) IPA: /təˈmɒɹoʊ/
  • (New York City, Philadelphia) IPA: /təˈmɑɹə/
  • IPA: /təˈmɑɹoʊ/, /tʊˈmɑɹoʊ/
  • (colloquial or dialectal) IPA: /təˈmɑɹə/
• (Canada) IPA: /təˈmɔɹoʊ/, /təˈmɒɹoʊ/, /təˈmɑɹoʊ/, /tʊ-/
• (Indic) IPA: /ʈʊˈmɔro/, (father-bother merger) /ʈʊˈmɑro/
• 韻: -ɒɹəʊ

副詞

tomorrow (not comparable)

1. On the day after the present day.
   • 1711 [December?] (date written), Jonathan Swift, “An Excellent New Song. Being the Intended Speech of a Famous Orator against Peace [i.e., Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham].”, in Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, editors, The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, […], new edition, volume VII, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1801, →OCLC, page 72:

     He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court to their sorrow, / Shall hear him harangue against Prior to morrow.

   • 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 or 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 (and 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.

使用する際の注意点

Tomorrow does not necessarily refer to the next day as defined by a calendar, a clock’s time, but may refer to the remaining part of the current calendar day (and possibly also some part of the subsequent day) after sleeping and waking up again, especially if the speaker or recipient is about to go to sleep.

反意語

• yesterday

名詞

tomorrow (countable and uncountable, plural tomorrows)

1. (uncountable) The day after the present day.

   Tomorrow will be sunny.

   • 1891 January, Rudyard Kipling, chapter IV, in The Light that Failed, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published March 1891, →OCLC, 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.'

   • 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!

2. (uncountable, countable) A future period or time.
   • 1965, American Flint, volume 55, page 28:

     It’s 1965 and we certainly welcome this new year with hopes that all of our tomorrows will bring happiness.

   • 1978, Alan S. Berger, quoting “The doctor won’t be in today or tomorrow”, The City: Urban Communities and Their Problems, Dubuque, Ia.: Wm. C. Brown Company Publishers, →ISBN, page 359:

     Surgoinsville, Tennessee, hasn’t had a doctor since 1965. That’s when the community’s only doctor died. Day after day, Surgoinsville’s modern medical clinic stands empty, useless. […] Surgoinsville’s clinic faces a lot of empty tomorrows.

   • 1991, Charles S[pittal] Robb, “The Age of Limits: Its Challenges and Opportunities”, in Robert D. Behn, editor, Governors on Governing, University Press of America, →ISBN, page 10:

     Additionally, programs such as our Televised Graduate Engineering Instruction effort, designed to allow engineers in the field to benefit from the latest research at our engineering schools, and the Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, which will spur research in high-energy-particle physics, will help Virginia as well as the entire Southeast enter the brave new high-tech world of tomorrow.

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

tomorrow (uncountable)

1. alternative form of tomorwe

名詞

to morrow (plural to morrows)

1. Obsolete form of tomorrow.
   • 1600, author unknown, "Phillidaes Love-call to her Coridon, and his replying" (song), in England's Helicon, printed at London by I.R. for John Flasket:

     Phil. Yonder comes my Mother, Coridon,

     whether shall I flie?

     Cor. Under yonder Beech my lovely one,

     while she passeth by.

     Say to her thy true-Love was not heere,

     remember, remember,

     to morrow is another day:

   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, “Of Christian Society”, in The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living, 19th edition, London: J. Hepinstall, published 1703, section VI, page 114:

     Enjoy the preſent whatſoever it be, and be not ſollicitous for the future : for if you take your foot from the preſent ſtanding, and thruſt it forward toward to morrow’s even, you are in a reſtleſs condition, it is like refuſing to quench your preſent thirſt by fearing you ſhall want to drink the next day.

   • 1676, Matthew Hale, Contemplations moral and divine, by a person of great learning and judgment, ed. by E. Stephens [1699].

     Give therefore, I pray thee, Bread for this day, and when to morrow comes, I will beg Bread of thee for to morrow; […]

   • 1698, Lancelot Addison, “A Farther Account of the Things to be Pray’d for”, in The Christians Daily Sacrifice, Duly Offer’d. Or A Practical Discourse Teaching the Right Performance of Prayer, London: […] Robert Clavel, […], →OCLC, page 118:

     And the Petition for Daily Bread [in the Lord's Prayer] is by ſome thus paraphras'd, "Provide for us to morrows Bread, and give it to us to day, that we be not ſolicitous for to morrow: for ſufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

アナグラム

• rootworm, moorwort, wormroot

名詞

to-morrow (countable and uncountable, plural to-morrows)

1. Dated form of tomorrow [–20th c.]
   • 1871 December 27 (indicated as 1872), Lewis Carroll [pseudonym; Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], “Looking-Glass House”, in Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, London: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC, page 3:

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

   • 1891 January, Rudyard Kipling, chapter IV, in The Light that Failed, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published March 1891, →OCLC, 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[ohn] O[tway] P[ercy] Bland, E[dmund] Backhouse, China under the Empress Dowager, Philadelphia, Pa.: 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.

参考

• to-day
• to-night

アナグラム

• moorwort, rootworm, wormroot