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morn

/mɔːn/US/moɹn/

morn noun: morning.

Noun

morn (countable and uncountable, plural morns)

  1. (poetic) Morning.
    • But look, the morn, in russet mantle clad, / Walks o'er the dew of yon high eastward hill. / Break we our watch up, and by my advice, / Let us impart what we have seen tonightc. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
    • The cab arrives he blows his horn, I stumble at in the early morn1971, Leanne Scott, “L.A. International Airport”, performed by Susan Raye
    Synonyms:
    morning, morrow

morn meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

morn in Tamil

புலர் காலை, புலர்காலை

morn in Urdu

فجر, پگاہ, صبح, تڑکا

morn in Bengali

সকাল, প্রভাত

Synonyms of morn

Forms of morn

pluralmorns

Origin of morn

From Middle English morn, morwen, from Old English morgen, from Proto-West Germanic *morgan, *morgin, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, *murginaz, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥kéno, *mr̥kóno, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥Hko, from *mer- (“to shimmer, glisten”). See also West Frisian moarn, Low German Morgen, Dutch morgen, German Morgen, Danish morgen, Norwegian morgon; also Lithuanian mérkti (“to blink, twinkle”), Sanskrit मरी॑चि (márīci, “ray of light”), Greek μέρα (méra, “morning”). Doublet of morrow and morgen. See also morning.

Words formed from morn

Words that rhyme with morn

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Questions about morn

What does morn mean?
Morn means morning.
What is morn in Tamil?
Morn in Tamil is புலர் காலை, புலர்காலை. See Morn meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is morn?
Morn is a noun.
How do you pronounce morn?
Morn is pronounced /mɔːn/ (UK).
What is the plural of morn?
The plural of morn is morns.

Words near morn in the dictionary

  1. mormyrins
  2. mormyroid
  3. mormyroids
  4. mormyromast
  5. mormyromasts
  6. morn
  7. morn's morning
  8. morna
  9. mornas
  10. mornay
  11. morne

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Adapted from Wiktionary: morn (page history and authors); morn (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); morn (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); morn (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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