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  1. noun The first or early part of the day, lasting from midnight to noon or from sunrise to noon.
  2. noun The dawn.
  3. noun The first or early part; the beginning: the morning of a new nation.

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  • Final orders of a morning were the usual thing. —  The Rich Little Poor Boy
  • Six o'clock in the morning was the moment indicated How difficult it is to express what one experiences under such circumstances. —  Hortense Makers of History Series
  • The getting up in the morning is the hardest, but after we get started we do not mind the cold The patients have plenty of blankets and hot water bottles, so they do not suffer Two Zeppelins went over our head yesterday, but fortunately we are too unimportant to be noticed. —  'My Beloved Poilus'
  • The first thing that came to my mind in the morning was the scene I had witnessed in the post-office. —  Down The River Buck Bradford and His Tyrants
  • At first the morning was a little dull and cold, giving a somewhat sombre tone to the scenery; but after a time the sun shone out brightly, chasing away the shadows and lighting up the wondrous beauties of the Alpine landscape, bringing forth glints of coloured light from the dazzling waters, which reflected the blue sky overhead--a charming and fairy-like change, as if the wand of some good genius had been waved around, effecting a complete transformation The lake is some thirty miles in length, and its greatest width is about two and a half miles. —  Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta
 

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  1. Middle English, from morn, morn; see morn.

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  1. from Middle English morninge, morownynge, morwening, morʒening, from morn, morwen, morʒen, morn, + -ing. Cf. evening, from even + -ing.
 

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