Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The morning.
  • noun The dawn.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An abbreviation of morning.
  • noun The first part of the day; the morning: now used chiefly in poetry and often with personification. See morning.
  • noun Morrow: usually preceded by the: as, the morn (that is, to-morrow).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The first part of the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry.

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  • noun Morning.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the time period between dawn and noon

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old English morgen.]

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Middle English mōrn, morwen, from Old English morgen, from Proto-Germanic *murginaz (compare West Frisian moarn, Dutch morgen, Norwegian morgon), from pre-Germanic *mr̥kéno, *mr̥kóno, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko (compare Welsh bore ‘morning’, Lithuanian mérkti ‘to blink, twinkle’, Skt márīcih ‘ray of light’), from *mer- ‘to shimmer, glisten’ (compare Greek μέρα (méra) ‘morning’).

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Examples

  • The only proper way to greet the morn is to growl loudly and throw things.

    Clara Breed Roger Sutton 2006

  • The creation morn is appropriately associated with these, it being the commencement of this world's day.

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Despite rising in tandem with euro in Asian morn ing after y'day's selloff to 1.5187 (NY), as this move is seen as a minor retracement of recent down - trend, reckon 1.5295/05 wud cap recovery n yield retreat, below 1.5234, top seen, 1.5200/05 later.

    FXstreet.com AceTrader 2010

  • And therein were many knights and squires to behold, scaffolds and pavilions; for there upon the morn should be a great tournament: and the lord of the tower was in his castle and looked out at a window, and saw a damosel, a dwarf, and a knight armed at all points.

    Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

  • For the morn will be their day, what will be their way

    Generations of Change 1985

  • And therein were many knights and squires to behold, scaffolds and pavilions; for there upon the morn should be a great tournament: and the lord of the tower was in his castle and looked out at a window, and saw a damosel, a dwarf, and a knight armed at all points.

    Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1 1903

  • "Sufficient unto the morn is the evil thereof, '" called Albert after him.

    Other Main-Travelled Roads Hamlin Garland 1900

  • And on the morn was the feast of S. Laurence, and then died and departed out of this mortal life the holy lady and friend of our

    The Golden Legend, vol. 6 1230-1298 1900

  • -- Maister Tirl, the yellow room is ready for ye when ye like; and, gentlemen, as the morn is the Sabbath, I canna be keeping the servant queans out of their beds to wait on ye ony langer, for they will mak it an excuse for lying till aught o'clock on the Lord's day.

    St. Ronan's Well Walter Scott 1801

  • I don't really know where "morn" people come from ...

    moschikat Diary Entry moschikat 2002

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