tomorrow
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /təˈmɒɹəʊ/
  • (Boston) IPA: /təˈmɒɹoʊ/
  • (America) IPA: /təˈmɑɹoʊ/, /tʊˈmɑɹoʊ/
  • (New York, Philadelphia) IPA: /təˈmɑɹə/
  • (Canada) IPA: /təˈmɔɹoʊ/
Adverb

tomorrow (not comparable)

  1. On the day after the present day.
    • 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.
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tomorrow (plural tomorrows)

  1. The day after the present day.
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