Entry Word: morning

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 the time from sunrise until noon <I hate getting up in the morning to go to school>

Synonyms forenoon, morn

Related Words aurora, dawn, dawning, daybreak, daylight; cockcrow, sunrise, sunup; day, daytime, light

Near Antonyms dark, darkness, night, nighttime, twilight; dusk, evening, nightfall, sundown, sunset; afternoon

2 the first appearance of light in the morning or the time of its appearance <morning has broken> — see dawn 1
3 the point at which something begins <the period when people in ancient Mesopotamia began living in cities is usually regarded as the morning of civilization> — see beginning