You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs; you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience.
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Forenoon
//ˈfɔːnuːn//
Synonyms for "forenoon" (8 found)
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Noun(1 words)
Related words (4)
Noun(2 words)
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5 entriesTranslations
24 translations across 21 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- ضُحًا noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Bulgarian
1 entries- предобед noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Czech
1 entries- dopoledne noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Danish
1 entries- formiddag noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Esperanto
1 entries- antaŭtagmezo noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Finnish
3 entries- aamu noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
- aamupäivä noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
- huomen noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Gagauz
1 entries- kuşluk noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
German
1 entries- Vormittag noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Hebrew
1 entries- לִפְנֵי הַצָּהֳרַיִם noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Hungarian
1 entries- délelőtt noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Icelandic
2 entries- fyrirmiðdagur noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
- hádegi noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Latvian
1 entries- priekšpusdiena noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Polish
1 entries- przedpołudnie noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Russian
1 entries- у́тро noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Salar
1 entries- goşluq noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Slovak
1 entries- predpoludnie noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Southern Altai
1 entries- эртен noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Swedish
1 entries- förmiddag noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Turkish
1 entries- kuşluk noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Turkmen
1 entries- guşluk noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Urdu
1 entries- چاشْت noun (forenoon - part of the day before noon)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
Later in the forenoon the gale increased more and more; the seas set in, and the waves grew bigger and bigger[.]
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This, too, was why no one, not even the twins, paid Papa O. any heed when the family returned from Mass one Sunday forenoon and he told them someone had been knocking while they were away.
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A hot sun burned down on us. Ten times during a single forenoon every stitch of clothes on one's body was soaked with perspiration, and ten times it dried again.
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