morrow

To dawn

Noun

  1. The next or following day.
    • Two men were walking in the street; one said to the other: “Upon the morrow I will sup with thee.” And the Pestilence grinned a grin that none beheld, baring his dripping teeth, and crept away to see whether upon the...
    • The balance of the day and evening was filled with preparation for a great hunt—spears were overhauled, quivers were replenished, bows were restrung; and all the while the village witch doctor passed through the busy...
  2. Morning.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:morrow.

Origin

From Middle English morwe, apocopic form of morwen, from Old English morgen, from Proto-West Germanic *morgan, *morgin, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, *murginaz; compare Dutch morgen and German Morgen. Doublet of morgen and morn.

Forms

morrows

Synonyms

tomorrow morn morning

Derived

amorrow good morrow morrowless morrow-mass morrowtide overmorrow tomorrow yester-morrow

Verb

  1. To dawn
    • […] 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. - 1885, Sir Richard Burton, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp:

Forms

morrows morrowing morrowed