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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
morn
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Every day is a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world made anew.
▪ Now I am laboring hard every day from morn to eve, and feel the better for it.
▪ Over the stream let vapors are borne, waiting to fade at the bright coming morn.
▪ Preston this dank October morn has encountered greater hazards and is prepared for more.
▪ Tamar had little chance to talk to Stephen, who seemed to be occupied on estate business from morn till night.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Morn

Morn \Morn\ (m[^o]rn), n. [OE. morwen, morgen, AS. morgen; akin to D. morgen, OS. morgan, G. morgen, Icel. morginn, morgunn, Sw. morgon, Dan. morgen, Goth. ma['u]rgins. Cf. Morrow, Morning.] The first part of the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry.

From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve.
--Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
morn

contracted from Middle English morwen, from Old English (Mercian) margen (dative marne), earlier morgen (dative morgne) "morning, forenoon, sunrise," from Proto-Germanic *murgana- "morning" (cognates: Old Saxon morgan, Old Frisian morgen, Middle Dutch morghen, Dutch morgen, Old High German morgan, German Morgen, Gothic maurgins), from PIE *merk-, perhaps from root *mer- "to blink, twinkle" (source of Lithuanian mirgeti "to blink").

Wiktionary
morn

n. (context now poetic English) morning.

WordNet
morn

n. the time period between dawn and noon; "I spent the morning running errands" [syn: morning, morning time, forenoon]

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Usage examples of "morn".

They are for unhappy people, like me, who must learn to distil by learned patience the aurum potabile from the husks of life, the peace which happier mortals find lying like manna each morn upon the meadows.

I gave her twelve, and went home, where I slept till morn, without thinking of breakfasting with the Marquis de Prie, but I think I should have given him some notice of my inability to come.

With budding, fading, faded flowers, They stand the wonder of the bowers From morn to evening dews, He told of the Magnolia, spread High as a cloud, high over head!

Next morn early I went to look, and there were a thousand gobblemoles druggling up the earth that covered the road, throwing it to either side, making huge mounds, and leaving the road beneath as clean as old bone.

From rocks around hung the loose ivy dangling, And in the clefts sumach of liveliest green, Bright ising-stars the little beach was spangling, The gold-cup sorrel from his gauzy screen Shone like a fairy crown, enchased and beaded, Left on some morn, when light flashed in their eyes unheeded.

Thou seest me enraptured and attracted toward Thy glorious kingdom, enkindled with the fire of Thy love amongst mankind, a herald of Thy kingdom in these vast and spacious lands, severed from aught else save Thee, relying on Thee, abandoning rest and comfort, remote from my native home, a wanderer in these regions, a stranger fallen upon the ground, humble before Thine exalted Threshold, submissive toward the heaven of Thine omnipotent glory, supplicating Thee in the dead of night and at the break of dawn, entreating and invoking Thee at morn and at eventide to graciously aid me to serve Thy Cause, to spread abroad Thy Teachings and to exalt Thy Word throughout the East and the West.

Alexander of Gyer assured me this morn that we would be well received by them, but it seems that the only thing those ladies well receive is the gossip Aunt Leta gives them.

She has vomited in the morn on occasion and is always munching on dried manchet bread.

Thine throo rooasy morn to neet, Has ta fun some wondrous treasure, Maks thi be for ivver breet?

All these, and a hundred others of equally varied description, go off on the landing-stage, whence they will have to pay their obolus to the Charon of the Thames ere they are swallowed up in the living tide that rolls along the Strand from morn to night.

That sunny morn after their celebration, when Eglantine was rethatching the weaknesses of the roof, someone cried of ships.

Dwells there in western halls no maiden Who waits since morn first kissed the sea, Upon thy breast her joys to unladen, Whose whole of life is love and thee?

On the first friendly bank he throws him down, Or rests his head upon a rock till morn: Then rises fresh, pursues his wonted game, And if the following day he chance to find A new repast, or an untasted spring, Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.

When the girl Emma had summoned her, she had expected to receive what she had missed that morn, utter shame over her behavior yestereve in his bed.

Dumfries the morn gif the beast be to the fore, and the branks bide hale.