Tomorrow

How to spell tomorrow

8 letters · 3 syllables

How to pronounce tomorrow

Say the part in capitals loudest.

What does tomorrow mean?

1. adverbOn the day after today.
2. nounThe day after today, considered as a point in time.

Tomorrow in a sentence

• adverb

  The report is due tomorrow morning at nine.

• noun

  She believes tomorrow will bring better news than today.

• adverb

  They fly to Lisbon tomorrow for a short break.

• noun

  The savings plan invests in a more secure tomorrow for the family.

Where does tomorrow come from?

Language of origin: Germanic

The word comes from Old English, where the phrase 'to morgen' meant 'on the morrow' or 'at the coming morning'. The element 'morgen' simply meant 'morning', and the same Germanic root survives in the German word 'Morgen' and in the older English word 'morrow', meaning the following day. For centuries the phrase was written as two words, and even in early modern English you find spellings like 'to morrow' with a space or a hyphen. The single doubled-R spelling 'tomorrow' that we use today only settled firmly in the nineteenth century, and that lingering uncertainty over whether to double the M or the R is exactly the spelling trap that catches adults: there is one M and two Rs, mirroring the old 'morrow'.

How the word is built

• to- (at, on)
• morrow (the next day, morning)