The morning is the part of each day between the time that people usually wake up and 12 o'clock noon or lunchtime.
During the morning your guide will take you around the city.
On Sunday morning Bill was woken by the telephone.
He read about it in his morning paper.
Synonyms: before noon, forenoon, morn [poetic], a.m. More Synonyms of morning
2. singular noun
If you refer to a particular time in themorning, you mean a time between 12 o'clock midnight and 12 o'clock noon.
I often stayed up until two or three in the morning.
The attack happened in the early hours of the morning.
3.
See in the morning
4.
See morning, noon, and night
More Synonyms of morning
morning in British English
(ˈmɔːnɪŋ)
noun
1.
the first part of the day, ending at or around noon
2.
sunrise; daybreak; dawn
3.
the beginning or early period
the morning of the world
4. the morning after
5. (modifier)
of, used, or occurring in the morning
morning coffee
Word origin
C13 morwening, from morn, formed on the model of evening
morning in American English
(ˈmɔrnɪŋ)
noun
1.
the first or early part of the day, from midnight, or esp. dawn, to noon
2.
the first or early part
the morning of life
3.
the dawn; daybreak
adjective
4.
of, in, or for the morning
Word origin
ME morweninge (by analogy with evening) < OE morgen, morning, akin to Ger < IE base *mer(e)k-, to glimmer, twilight > obs. Czech mrkati, to dawn, grow dark
More idioms containing
morning
a Monday morning quarterback
Examples of 'morning' in a sentence
morning
Simply splash some on to skin after cleansing morning and night.
The Sun (2016)
But the proof of its big selling point would come the morning after.
The Sun (2016)
The next morning there was a tense and emotional cabinet meeting.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Our management got an email at one in the morning on the day it came out, to clear it.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Sleep and lounging around in bed in the morning are not part of work: they are an escape from it.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
I'll sleep with the top half of my body fully clothed to save us time in the morning.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
We discovered the next morning that 130 people had died and 414 were hospitalised.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
A keen rugby player, he vanished just after midnight on Friday morning after being kicked out of a nightclub.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
An accompanying photograph showed a fireball rising over the city in early morning light.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The smell of popcorn wakes up people in the morning for some reason!
Christianity Today (2000)
One day from morning till night they had been passing through a forest.
George MacDonald The Princess and the Curdie (1883)
We are moving up tonight into the trenches from which we are going to attack tomorrow morning.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
We received news this morning that part of that mountain face collapsed during the earthquake.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
By which time the morning has indeed gone.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
This took most of the first morning and only then were they ready to move on.
O'Connor, Joseph & Seymour, John Training with N.L.P. (1994)
By yesterday morning people were staggering around getting ready to go home.
The Sun (2016)
He worked hard from morning till night and did not know what joy was.
L. Frank Baum The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
That was in the early morning.
Charles Glass The Tribes Triumphant (2006)
Take an apartment and eat out morning, noon and night.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
After the success of the morning, the afternoon singles just went horribly wrong.
Peter McEvoy For Love or Money (2006)
Until the unthinkable happened on race day morning, that is.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Prepare to spot him running round the City on his morning jog.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
The morning after, she got a call.
The Sun (2011)
She is in my thoughts morning, noon and night.
The Sun (2012)
Now it has dropped, but 60 or more arrived in the first two hours on the morning of my visit.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Quotations
Awake! For morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight And lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's turret in a noose of lightEdward FitzgeraldThe Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
In other languages
morning
British English: morning /ˈmɔːnɪŋ/ NOUN
The morning is the part of a day between the time that people wake up and noon.
On Sunday morning he was woken by the telephone.
American English: morning
Arabic: صَبَاحٌ
Brazilian Portuguese: manhã
Chinese: 早晨
Croatian: jutro
Czech: ráno
Danish: morgen
Dutch: ochtend
European Spanish: mañana parte del día
Finnish: aamu
French: matin
German: Morgen
Greek: πρωί
Italian: mattina
Japanese: 午前
Korean: 아침
Norwegian: morgen
Polish: ranek
European Portuguese: manhã
Romanian: dimineață
Russian: утро
Latin American Spanish: mañana tiempo desde la medianoche hasta el mediodía
Swedish: morgon
Thai: เวลาเช้า
Turkish: sabah
Ukrainian: ранок
Vietnamese: buổi sáng
Chinese translation of 'morning'
morning
(ˈmɔːnɪŋ)
n(c/u)
(= early in the morning) 早晨 (zǎochén) (个(個), gè)
(= later in the morning) 上午 (shàngwǔ) (个(個), gè)
⇒ We spent all morning cleaning the kitchen.我们花了一上午时间来打扫厨房。 (Wǒmen huāle yī shàngwǔ shíjiān lái dásǎo chúfáng.)
cpd
[paper, sun, walk]
(= early in the morning) 早晨 (zǎochén)
(= later in the morning) 上午 (shàngwǔ)
good morning!早上好！ (zǎoshang hǎo!)
he'll phone back in the morning他会(會)在明天上午回电(電)话(話) (tā huì zài míngtiān shàngwǔ huí diànhuà)
at 3 o'clock/7 o'clock in the morning凌(淩)晨3点(點)/早上7点(點) (língchén sān diǎn/zǎoshang qī diǎn)
this morning今天上午 (jīntiān shàngwǔ)
the next morning第二天早上 (dì'èr tiān zǎoshang)
on Monday morning星期一上午 (Xīngqīyī shàngwǔ)
All related terms of 'morning'
good morning!
早上好！ zǎoshang hǎo!
this morning
今天上午 jīntiān shàngwǔ
morning sickness
孕妇(婦)晨吐 yùnfù chéntù
tomorrow morning
明天早晨 míngtiān zǎochen
early this morning
今天一大早 jīntiān yīdàzǎo
on Monday morning
星期一上午 Xīngqīyī shàngwǔ
the next morning
第二天早上 dì'èr tiān zǎoshang
early in the morning
清早 qīngzǎo
good morning/afternoon!
早上/下午好！ zǎoshang/xiàwǔ hǎo!
the next day/morning
第二天/天早晨 dì'èr tiān/tiān zǎochén
yesterday morning/afternoon
昨天上午/下午 zuótiān shàngwǔ/xiàwǔ
in the morning/afternoon
在上午/下午 zài shàngwǔ/xiàwǔ
he'll phone back in the morning
他会(會)在明天上午回电(電)话(話) tā huì zài míngtiān shàngwǔ huí diànhuà
I started to lose hope of ever seeing the morning.
Synonyms
dawn
She woke at dawn.
sunrise
The rain began towards sunrise.
morrow (archaic)
first light
daybreak
He got up every morning before daybreak.
break of day
idiom
See morning, noon and night
related words
related adjectivematutinal
Quotation
Awake! For morning in the bowl of night Has flung the stone that puts the stars to flight And lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's turret in a noose of light [Edward Fitzgerald – The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám]