morn

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UK/mɔːn/US/moɹn/US[mo̞ɹn]/mɔːɹn/

noun

Morning.

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morningmorrowmorning timeforenoon
OriginMiddle English morn ← Old English morgen ← Proto-West Germanic *morgan →
Less commonScrabble 6
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Meanings

nounmorn (countable and uncountable, plural morns)

plural morns

  1. countablepoeticuncountableMorning.

    The cab arrives he blows his horn, I stumble at in the early morn

    1971, Leanne Scott, “L.A. International Airport”, performed by Susan Raye
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    But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, / Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill. / Break we our watch up, and by my advice, / Let us impart what we have seen tonight

    c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], lines 165-168

    Praise the Lord, His mercy is more. Stronger than darkness, new ev'ry morn. Our sins, they are many; His mercy is more.

    2016, Matt Boswell, Matt Papa, “His Mercy Is More”, in Church Songs

    Synonyms: morning, morrow

Synonyms & antonyms

nounMorning.

Similar
morningmorrow

More synonyms by meaning

nounthe time period between dawn and noon

Similar
morningmorning timeforenoon
Broader
time periodperiod of timeperiod
Also see
early brightforedayforenoonmatinmorningmorning timemorrowundertide

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mr̥Hko
  2. Proto-Indo-European*mr̥kéno
  3. Proto-Germanic*murganaz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*morgan
  5. Old Englishmorgen
  6. Middle Englishmorn
  7. Englishmorn

From Middle English morn, morwen, from Old English morgen, from Proto-West Germanic *morgan, *morgin, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, *murginaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥kéno, *mr̥kóno, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko, from *mer- (“to shimmer, glisten”). See also West Frisian moarn, Low German Morgen, Dutch morgen, German Morgen, Danish morgen, Norwegian morgon; also Lithuanian mérkti (“to blink, twinkle”), Sanskrit मरी॑चि (márīci, “ray of light”), Greek μέρα (méra, “morning”). Doublet of morrow and morgen. See also morning.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with morn

pornborncornwornwarntornborneswornbournethornhorneunbornrebornmournscornadornforlornfreebornpeppercornWestbourneshornlornmourneleghorn
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Sounds the same

mournmournemorne (horse–hoarse merger)

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

morn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/morn

MLA

“morn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/morn. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “morn,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/morn.

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