Morn

//moɹn// noun

noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Morning. countable, poetic, uncountable

    "But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, / Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill. / Break we our watch up, and by my advice, / Let us impart what we have seen tonight"

  2. 2
    the time period between dawn and noon wordnet

Synonyms

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morningmorningack emmaamante meridiemaurora

Example

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"It was the lark, the herald of the morn, no nightingale."

Etymology

From Middle English morn, morwen, from Old English morgen, from Proto-West Germanic *morgan, *morgin, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, *murginaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥kéno, *mr̥kóno, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko, from *mer- (“to shimmer, glisten”). See also West Frisian moarn, Low German Morgen, Dutch morgen, German Morgen, Danish morgen, Norwegian morgon; also Lithuanian mérkti (“to blink, twinkle”), Sanskrit मरीचि (márīci, “ray of light”), Greek μέρα (méra, “morning”). Doublet of morrow and morgen. See also morning.

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after-morngood morn

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