morning [noon.]

Roget-categorie 125

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.6. Time
›› 1.6.2. Relative time

#125. Morning [Noon.]

zelfstandig naamwoord

morning, morn, forenoon, a.
m., prime, dawn, daybreak — dayspring^†, foreday^†, sunup — peep of day, break of day — aurora — first blush of the morning, first flush of the morning, prime of the morning — twilight, crepuscule, sunrise — cockcrow, cockcrowing^† — the small hours, the wee hours of the morning.
spring — vernal equinox, first point of Aries.
noon — midday, noonday — noontide, meridian, prime — nooning, noontime.
summer, midsummer.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

matin, matutinal^† — vernal.

bijwoord

at sunrise etc. n. — with the sun, with the lark, when the morning dawns.
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uitdrukking

at shut of evening flowers" [Paradise Lost]; entre chien et loup [Fr.] — flames in the forehead of the morning sky" [Milton]; the breezy call of incense-breathing morn" [Gray].

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