morning [noon.]
Roget category 125
1. Words expressing abstract relations› 1.6. Time
›› 1.6.2. Relative time
#125.
Morning
[Noon.]
noun
morning,
morn,
forenoon,
a.
m.,
prime,
dawn,
daybreak —
dayspring†,
foreday†,
sunup —
peep of day,
break of day —
aurora —
first blush of the morning,
first flush of the morning,
prime of the morning —
twilight,
crepuscule,
sunrise —
cockcrow,
cockcrowing† —
the small hours,
the wee hours of the morning.
spring —
vernal equinox,
first point of Aries.
noon —
midday,
noonday —
noontide,
meridian,
prime —
nooning,
noontime.
summer,
midsummer.
adjective
matin,
matutinal† —
vernal.
adverb
at sunrise
etc.
n. —
with the sun,
with the lark,
when the morning dawns.
"
phrase
at shut of evening flowers"
[Paradise Lost];
entre chien et loup [Fr.] —
flames in the forehead of the morning sky"
[Milton];
the breezy call of incense-breathing morn"
[Gray].
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