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forenoons

forenoons is the plural 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

Questions about forenoons

What is forenoons the plural of?
Forenoons is the plural of forenoon.

Words near forenoons in the dictionary

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

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