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ayont

ayont adverb: beyond.

Adverb

ayont (not comparable)

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) Beyond.

Preposition

ayont

  1. (Northern England, Scotland) Beyond.
    • How he escaped a broken neck in that dreadful place no human being will ever ken. The sweat, he has told me, stood in cold drops upon his forehead; he scarcely was aware of the saddle in which he sat, and his eyes were stelled in his head so that he saw nothing but the sky ayont him.1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
    • Ayont the windows in the waning of the afternoon, Chris could see the frozen glister of night on the Grampians […].1934, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Grey Granite (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 485

Forms of ayont

alternative formayond
alternative formyont

Origin of ayont

From a- + yond.

Questions about ayont

What does ayont mean?
Ayont means beyond.
What part of speech is ayont?
Ayont can be an adverb or a preposition.

Words near ayont in the dictionary

  1. Ayodhyan
  2. Ayodhyans
  3. Ayon
  4. ayond
  5. Ayons
  6. ayont
  7. ayoo
  8. Ayoreo
  9. Ayot Green
  10. Ayot St Lawrence
  11. Ayot St Peter

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