morning
/ˈmɔːnɪŋ
/noun
1The period of time between midnight and noon, especially from sunrise to noon: I’ve got a meeting this morning it was a beautiful sunny morning [as modifier]: the morning papers...
- You will work from seven in the morning till seven at night and have one and a half free days per month.
- He spent three days working from seven in the morning until eleven at night on his masterpiece.
- If there's something in the morning paper about a case, I cut it out and put it in a file.
Synonyms
before noon, before lunch(time), a.m.
literary morn
Nautical & North American forenoon
1.1Sunrise: a hint of steely light showed that morning was on its way...
- For two miles the water stretched north, a flat sheet of grey in the morning sun.
- For a while, the birds kept both of us happy, sitting in the morning sun, blue sky overhead.
- Wednesday morning dawned bright, clear, and cold - typical end of October weather.
Synonyms
dawn, daybreak, sunrise, break of day, first light;
North American sunup
literary cockcrow, dayspring, dawning, aurora
adverb (mornings) informal
Every morning: mornings, she’d sleep late
exclamation informal
short for good morning.Morning mate. I trust you are feeling a whole lot better today....
- 'Morning, how are you?'
Phrases
the morning after (the night before)
morning, noon, and night
Origin
Middle English: from morn, on the pattern of evening.
In Old English the word for the beginning of the day was morgen, which survives in the literary words morn and morrow. In the Middle Ages morn was extended to morning on the model of evening (see even). Excessive drinking has resulted in the morning after (more fully the morning after the night before) since the late 19th century.