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forenoone

forenoone is the obsolete spelling of forenoon.

Meaning of forenoon

Noun

forenoon (countable and uncountable, plural forenoons)

  1. 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
    Synonyms:
    morning, foreday, morn

Forms of forenoone

pluralforenoones

Questions about forenoone

What is forenoone the obsolete spelling of?
Forenoone is the obsolete spelling of forenoon.

Words near forenoone in the dictionary

  1. forenight
  2. forenights
  3. foreninst
  4. forenint
  5. forenoon
  6. forenoone
  7. forenoones
  8. forenoons
  9. forenote
  10. forenoted
  11. forenotes

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