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to morrow

to morrow is the obsolete form of tomorrow.

Meaning of tomorrow

Adverb

tomorrow (not comparable)

  1. On the day after the present day.
    • He has vamp'd an old speech, and the court to their sorrow, / Shall hear him harangue against Prior to morrow.1711 [December?] (date written), Jonathan Swift, “An Excellent New Song. Being the Intended Speech of a Famous Orator against Peace [i.e., Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham].”, in Thomas Sheridan...
  2. At some point in the future; later on
    • If you don’t get your life on track today, you’re going to be very sorry tomorrow.
  3. (obsolete, possibly) On next (period of time other than a day, such as a week or a month), following the present (period of time).
    • Resolved, &c. That the House be Called over again on Tomorrow Month, being the Six-and-twentieth Day of April next.1664 March 28, debate in Great Britain's House of Commons, printed in 1803 in the Journals of the House of Commons, page 538
  4. (obsolete) On the next day (following some date in the past).
    • To prevent this, a committee for peace was proposed for to-morrow, who heard the ministers and Mr. Anderson upon the heads of the affair, but in vain; when their complaint was given in in Synod, and referred to the next Synod […]1717 October 8, Robert Wodrow, in a letter to Mr. James Hart, printed in 1828, Robert Wodrow, The History of the Sufferings of the Church of Scotland, page xxii

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Forms of to morrow

pluralto morrows

Questions about to morrow

What is to morrow the obsolete form of?
To morrow is the obsolete form of tomorrow.

Words near to morrow in the dictionary

  1. To Kwa Wan
  2. to let
  3. to little avail
  4. to many
  5. to meward
  6. to morrow
  7. to much
  8. to name a few
  9. to no avail
  10. to no end
  11. to no purpose

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Adapted from Wiktionary: to morrow (page history and authors); tomorrow (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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