forenoon
noun/ˈfɔːnuːn/UK/ˈfɔɹnun/US/ˈfo(ː)ɹnuːn/
Etymology
From Middle English forenone, equivalent to fore- + noon.
- inherited from forenone
Definitions
Synonym of morning
Synonym of morning: the part of the day between sunrise and noon.
- You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs; you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience.
- Later in the forenoon the gale increased more and more; the seas set in, and the waves grew bigger and bigger[.]
- This, too, was why no one, not even the twins, paid Papa O. any heed when the family returned from Mass one Sunday forenoon and he told them someone had been knocking while they were away.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for forenoon. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA