Crossword Dictionary
morn
morning, morn, morning time, forenoon - n
the time period between dawn and noon; "I spent the morning running errands"
in a sentence
He beamed like the sun on midsummer morn.
The morn was clear as glass, and I was happy as a singing bird.
Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet,
“He made no mention of anything leading up to the early mornÂing of July 2nd that might explain what happened?â€
I could spend my life in the Fire Swamp and sing from morn till night if you were by me.
etymology
"the first part of the day, the morning," late 14c., contracted from Middle English morwen, morghen, from Old English (Mercian) margen (dative marne), earlier morgen (dative morgne) "morning, forenoon, sunrise," from Proto-Germanic *murgana- "morning" (source also of Old Saxon morgan, Old Frisian morgen, Middle Dutch morghen, Dutch morgen, Old High German morgan, German Morgen, Gothic maurgins), from PIE *merk-, perhaps from root *mer- "to blink, twinkle" (source of Lithuanian mirgÄ—ti "to blink"). By late 19c. relegated to poetry.