morrow

See also: Morrow

English

Etymology

From Middle English morwe, from Old English morgen, from Proto-West Germanic *morgan, *morgin, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, *murginaz; compare Dutch morgen and German Morgen. See also the related morn, from the same Old English origin.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒɹ.əʊ/
(US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɹ.oʊ/, /ˈmɑɹ.oʊ/
- Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -ɒɹəʊ

Noun

morrow (plural morrows)

(archaic or poetic) The next or following day.
(archaic) Morning.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:morrow.

Synonyms

(next day): tomorrow
(morning): morn, morning; see also Thesaurus:morning

Derived terms

Translations

the next or following day

Catalan: l'endemà
Estonian: homne (päev); järgnev päev
Finnish: huomen (fi)
French: lendemain (fr) m
German: morgen (de)
Gothic: 𐌰𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 m (afardags)
Portuguese: amanhã (pt)
Russian: следующий день m (sledujuščij denʹ), завтрашний день m (zavtrašnij denʹ)

morning

Bulgarian: у́тро (bg) n (útro)
Czech: ráno (cs) n
Estonian: hommik (et)
Finnish: huomen (fi)
French: matin (fr) m
German: Morgen (de) m
Norwegian: morgen (no) m
Portuguese: manhã (pt)
Russian: у́тро (ru) n (útro)
Spanish: mañana (es) f
Swedish: morgon (sv) c
Tagalog: umaga (tl)
Turkish: sabah (tr)
Ukrainian: ранок (uk) (ranok)

Verb

morrow (third-person singular simple present morrows, present participle morrowing, simple past and past participle morrowed)

(intransitive) To dawn
- 1885, Sir Richard Burton, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp
  […] he did her bidding but hardly touched food; after which he lay at full length on his bed all the night through in cogitation deep until morning morrowed.

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