morning
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈmɔːnɪŋ/
ipa: /ˈmɔɹnɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)nɪŋ
ipa: /ˈmoɹnɪŋ/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈmɑːɹnən/
note: Dublin
ipa: /ˈmɑːɹnəŋ/
homophone: mourning (horse–hoarse merger)
note: rhotic
ipa: /mɔːɹnɪŋ/
note: non-rhotic
ipa: /mɔːnɪŋ/
Forms: form: mornings
Etymology: From Middle English morwenyng, from morwen + -ing. By surface analysis, morn + -ing. See also morrow (Middle English morwe).
Senses: examples: text: I'll see you tomorrow morning.
text: I'm working in the morning, so let's meet in the afternoon.
text: Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
ref: 1835, Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, volume 1, pages 284–5:
text: One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
text: Sheesh, it's two in the morning. Why do kids always have to feel sick at two in the morning?
ref: 1988 October 11, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):
glosses: The early part of the day, especially from midnight to noon.
glosses: The early part of anything.
examples: text: Celestina […] retired to her own room, leaving her friend to the pleasing and important occupation of the toilet, in which half of what is now called morning, was usually passed by Matilda.
ref: 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 101:
text: We breakfasted before nine, and do not dine till half-past six on the occasion, so I hope we three shall have a long morning enough.
ref: 1813, Jane Austen, letter, 26 October
glosses: That part of the day from dawn until the main meal (typically in late afternoon).
glosses: The first alcoholic drink of the day; a morning draught.
Synonyms: topics: time
word: forenoon
raw_tags: from dawn to noon
word: yeender
sense: time from midnight to noon
word: a.m.
sense: time from midnight to noon
word: forenoon
sense: time from midnight to noon
word: yeender
word: beforenoon
word: early bright
word: foreday
word: matin
word: morn
word: morning
word: morrow
word: prime
word: sparrow-fart
word: undertime
Hypernyms: word: daytime
Coordinate terms: afternoon
evening
night
Meronyms: word: breakfast
word: midmorning
Derived terms: amornings
bright and morning star
coffee morning
European morning
Europe morning
forget to take one's medication this morning
forget to take one's pills this morning
Japanese morning glory
like a kid on Christmas morning
Mexican morning glory
mid-morning
midmorning
Monday-morning
Monday morning disease
Monday-morning quarterback
Monday morning quarterback
morning-after
morning after
morning-after pill
morning after the night before
morning bean
morningbird
morning breath
Morning Breeze
morning call
morning coat
morning draught
morning dress
morning-dressed
morningful
morning-gift
morning gift
morning glory
morning goods
morning gown
morning grouch
morning gun
morning impaired
morning kitchen
morning-land
morning land
morningless
morning line
morningly
morningmare
morningness
morning-noon-and-night
morning person
morning prayer
morning prayers
morning report
morning rite
morning roll
morning room
morning-room
morning sickness
morning sleep
morning star
morning sticks
morning suit
morning-suited
morning tea
morning tent
morningtide
morning time
morningward
morning wood
morning woodie
morning woody
morning zoo
morn's morning
open morning
premorning
pride of the morning
Saturday-morning cartoon
sniffing-the-morning-air position
son of the morning
sure as the sun is going to come up tomorrow morning
sure as the sun is going to rise tomorrow morning
this morning
tomorning
top of the morning
yestermorning
Related terms: word: morn
word: early morning
word: dawn
word: first light
word: postdawn
word: midday
word: evening
word: dusk
word: night
word: midnight
word: dawn chorus
word: dew