morrow
1 Americannoun
noun
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the next day
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the period following a specified event
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the morning
Usage
What does morrow mean? Morrow is a literary or poetic way of saying tomorrow or the next day.In some cases, it’s also used to mean the morning or the period after something.Morrow is most often seen in old poetry and literature. No one uses the word morrow in everyday speech unless they’re trying to mimic a poetic style or sound like a character from an old play.Example: There’s never enough time today—if only we could borrow from the morrow.
Etymology
Origin of morrow
1225–75; Middle English morwe, variant of morwen, Old English morgen morning. See morn
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
But with a significant storm predicted for the morrow, Saturday might also be susceptible to a more apocalyptic description as the “before times.”
From Washington Post
Good morrow one and all and welcome to the real football factories another fascinating night of Europa League behaviour.
From The Guardian
Otherwise, it betrayed no sign that snow would finally fall on the morrow.
From Washington Post
In his first bulletin, Johnson did appear, if not exactly the recovered Beethoven, then a bit more, some thought, like Coleridge’s traumatised Wedding Guest, “a sadder and a wiser man/ he rose the morrow morn”.
From The Guardian
“On the morrow of the Republican success isolationist conceptions prevailed,” Winston Churchill wrote in “The Gathering Storm.”
From Washington Post
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