morning

morning
[[t]mɔ͟ː(r)nɪŋ[/t]]
♦
mornings
1) N-VAR 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.

2) N-SING: the N 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...

The attack happened in the early hours of the morning.

3) PHRASE 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...

Melanie promised that she would call them in the morning.

Syn:
tomorrow morning
4) PHRASE: PHR after v 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.


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