forenoon
UK/ˈfɔːnuːn//ˈfɔɹnun/
forenoon noun: synonym of morning: the part of the day between sunrise and noon.
Noun
forenoon (countable and uncountable, plural forenoons)
- 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.1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act 2, scene 1
- Later in the forenoon the gale increased more and more; the seas set in, and the waves grew bigger and bigger[.]1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 182
forenoon meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Kannada
forenoon in Hindi
- forenoon - part of the day before noon
- पूर्वाह्न pūrvāhna
forenoon in Tamil
- முற்பகல், முன்மதியம், நண்பகல், வரும்பகல்
forenoon in Urdu
- forenoon - part of the day before noon
- چاشْت cāśt
forenoon in Kannada
- ಎಡೆಹಗಲು, ಮುನ್ಪಗಲು
More languagesFewer languages
- forenoon in Odia
- ସକାଳ sakāḷa
- forenoon in Arabic
- ضُحًا ḍuḥan
- forenoon in Indonesian
- duha
Examples of forenoon in a sentence
- 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.1945, Nelson Algren, “How the Devil Came Down Division Street”, in The Best American Short Stories, (also in The Neon Wilderness, 1947):
- Ten times during a single forenoon every stitch of clothes on one's body was soaked with perspiration, and ten times it dried again.1910, Erwin Rosen, In the Legion, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2012:
- It was run in by Ranochan of Polmadie on the forenoon slow to Carlisle and the afternoon slow back to the North.1959 February, A. G. Dunbar, “The "Dunalastair I" 4-4-0s of the Caledonian”, in Trains Illustrated, page 87:
Synonyms of forenoon
Forms of forenoon
| plural | forenoons |
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Origin of forenoon
From Middle English forenone, equivalent to fore- + noon.
Words formed from forenoon
Questions about forenoon
- What does forenoon mean?
- Forenoon means synonym of morning: the part of the day between sunrise and noon.
- What is forenoon in Hindi?
- Forenoon in Hindi is पूर्वाह्न (pūrvāhna). See Forenoon meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use forenoon in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is forenoon?
- Forenoon is a noun.
- How do you pronounce forenoon?
- Forenoon is pronounced /ˈfɔːnuːn/ (UK).
- What is the plural of forenoon?
- The plural of forenoon is forenoons.
Words near forenoon in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: forenoon (page history and authors); forenoon (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); forenoon (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ସକାଳ (Odia) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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