Definition of 'morning'
Word forms: mornings
1. variable noun
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.
2. singular noun
If you refer to a particular time in the morning, 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.
3.
See
in the morning
4.
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morning in American English
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
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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
Word Frequency
morning in British English
noun
5. (modifier)
of, used, or occurring in the morning
morning coffee
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Word origin
C13 morwening, from morn, formed on the model of eveningExamples of 'morning' in a sentence
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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
- Spanish: mañana tiempo desde la medianoche hasta el mediodía
- Swedish: morgon
- Thai: เวลาเช้า
- Turkish: sabah
- Ukrainian: ранок
- Vietnamese: buổi sáng
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