to-morrow

to‐morrow (not comparable)

1. Archaic spelling of tomorrow.
   • 1924 June 7, George Mallory, 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

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

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

     "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.

• to‐day
• to‐night

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