different between morning vs morrow

English

Etymology

From Middle English morwenyng, from morwen +? -ing; equivalent to morn +? -ing. See also morrow (Middle English morwe).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m??n??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m??n??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n??
• Hyphenation: morn?ing
• Homophone: mourning (in accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Noun

morning (plural mornings)

1. The part of the day from dawn to noon.
   • 1835, Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, Volume 1, pp.284-5

     Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
2. The part of the day between midnight and noon.

   (1/3 am)

3. (figuratively) The early part of anything.
4. The first alcoholic drink of the day; a morning draught.

Synonyms

• (time from dawn to noon): forenoon; yeender (dialect); see also Thesaurus:morning
• (time from midnight to noon): a.m.; forenoon; yeender (dialect)

Coordinate terms

• afternoon; evening; night

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

See also

• (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight ^{(Category: en:Times of day)}

Interjection

morning

1. A greeting said in the morning; shortening of good morning

Anagrams

• norming

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

morning m (definite singular morningen, indefinite plural morninger, definite plural morningene)

1. alternative spelling of morgning

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²mo?.???/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

morning m (definite singular morningen, indefinite plural morningar, definite plural morningane)

1. alternative spelling of morgning

English

Etymology

From Middle English morwe, from Old English morgen, from Proto-West Germanic *morgan, *morgin, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, *murginaz; compare Dutch morgen and German Morgen. See also the related morn, from the same Old English origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m??o?/, /?m??o?/
• Rhymes: -????

Noun

morrow (plural morrows)

1. (archaic or poetic) The next or following day.
2. (archaic) Morning.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:morrow.

Synonyms

• (next day): tomorrow
• (morning): morn, morning; see also Thesaurus:morning

Derived terms

• tomorrow
• overmorrow
• yester-morrow

Translations

Verb

morrow (third-person singular simple present morrows, present participle morrowing, simple past and past participle morrowed)

1. (intransitive) To dawn
   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp

     […] he did her bidding but hardly touched food; after which he lay at full length on his bed all the night through in cogitation deep until morning morrowed.