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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MORN'ING, n.
1. The first part of the day, beginning at twelve o'clock at night and extending to twelve at noon. Thus we say, a star rises at one o'clock in the morning. In a more limited sense, morning is the time beginning an hour or two before sunrise, or at break of day, and extending to the hour of breakfast and of beginning the labors of the day. Among men of business in large cities, the morning extends to the hour of dining.
2. The first or early part.
In the morning of life, devote yourself to the service of the Most High.
MORN'ING, a. Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as morning dew; morning light; morning service.
She looks as clear
As morning roses newly washed with dew.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the time period between dawn and noon; "I spent the morning running errands" [syn: morning, morn, morning time, forenoon]
2: a conventional expression of greeting or farewell [syn: good morning, morning]
3: the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they talked until morning" [syn: dawn, dawning, morning, aurora, first light, daybreak, break of day, break of the day, dayspring, sunrise, sunup, cockcrow] [ant: sundown, sunset]
4: the earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the morning of the world" [syn: dawn, morning]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from morn + -ing (as in evening) Date: 13th century 1. a. dawn b. the time from sunrise to noon c. the time from midnight to noon 2. a period of first development ; beginning

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & int. --n. 1 the early part of the day, esp. from sunrise to noon (this morning; during the morning; morning coffee). 2 this time spent in a particular way (had a busy morning). 3 sunrise, daybreak. 4 a time compared with the morning, esp. the early part of one's life etc. --int. = good morning (see GOOD adj. 14). Phrases and idioms: in the morning 1 during or in the course of the morning. 2 colloq. tomorrow. morning after colloq. a hangover. morning-after pill a contraceptive pill effective when taken some hours after intercourse. morning coat a coat with tails, and with the front cut away below the waist. morning dress a man's morning coat and striped trousers. morning glory any of various twining plants of the genus Ipomoea, with trumpet-shaped flowers. morning-room a sitting-room for the morning. morning sickness nausea felt in the morning in pregnancy. morning star a planet or bright star, usu. Venus, seen in the east before sunrise. morning watch Naut. the 4-8 a.m. watch. Etymology: ME mor(we)ning f. morwen MORN + -ING(1) after evening

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Morning Morn"ing, a. Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, morning dew; morning light; morning service. She looks as clear As morning roses newly washed with dew. --Shak. Morning gown, a gown worn in the morning before one is dressed for the day. Morning gun, a gun fired at the first stroke of reveille at military posts. Morning sickness (Med.), nausea and vomiting, usually occurring in the morning; -- a common sign of pregnancy. Morning star. (a) Any one of the planets (Venus, Jupiter, Mars, or Saturn) when it precedes the sun in rising, esp. Venus. Cf. Evening star, Evening. (b) Satan. See Lucifer. Since he miscalled the morning star, Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far. --Byron. (c) A weapon consisting of a heavy ball set with spikes, either attached to a staff or suspended from one by a chain. Morning watch (Naut.), the watch between four A. M. and eight A. M..

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(mornings) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. The morning is the part of each day between the time that people usually wake up and 12 o'clock noon or lunchtime. During the morning your guide will take you around the city... On Sunday morning Bill was woken by the telephone... He read about it in his morning paper. N-VAR 2. If you refer to a particular time in the morning, you mean a time between 12 o'clock midnight and 12 o'clock noon. I often stayed up until two or three in the morning... N-SING: the N 3. If you say that something will happen in the morning, you mean that it will happen during the morning of the following day. I'll fly it to London in the morning... PHRASE 4. If you say that something happens morning, noon and night, you mean that it happens all the time. You get fit by playing the game, day in, day out, morning, noon and night. PHRASE: PHR after v

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

mor'-ning: There are several Hebrew and Greek words which are rendered "morning," the most common in Hebrew being boqer, which occurs 180 times. It properly means "the breaking forth of the light," "the dawn," as in Ge 19:27; Jud 19:8,25,27. Another word with the same meaning is shachar (Ge 19:15; Ne 4:21; Isa 58:8). mishchar ("womb of the morning," Ps 110:3) is a poetical term derived from. the same root. See HIND OF THE MORNING. noghah, naghha' (Da 6:19 (Hebrew 20)), mean "brightness." hashkem, comes from hishkim, "to load an animal" (for a journey), and as the nomads are accustomed to do this early in the morning it came to mean early morning (1Sa 17:16).

See BETIMES.

In the New Testament orthros, is properly "dawn," and is used for early morning (Joh 8:2; Ac 5:21), and

proia signifies the same (Mt 27:1). proi, "early," is an adverb and means early in the morning (Mr 1:35). Morning as an adjective is orthrinos (Re 22:16), or proinos (1 Esdras 1:11; 5:50; Re 2:28; 22:16).

H. Porter

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Dawn, daybreak, aurora, sunrise, break of day, peep of day, prime of day, first blush of the morning. 2. Forenoon, early part of the day. 3. Early part, spring-time.