Word Meanings - MORNING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, morning dew; morning light; morning service. She looks as clear As morning roses newly washed with dew. Shak. Morning gown, a gown worn in the morning

Additional info about word: MORNING

Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, morning dew; morning light; morning service. She looks as clear As morning roses newly washed with dew. Shak. Morning gown, a gown worn in the morning before one is dressed for the day. -- Morning gun, a gun fired at the first stroke of reveille at military posts. -- Morning sickness , nausea and vomiting, usually occurring in the morning; -- a common sign of pregnancy. -- Morning star. Any one of the planets (Venus, Jupiter, Mars, or Saturn) when it precedes the sun in rising, esp. Venus. Cf. Evening star, Evening. Satan. See Lucifer. Since he miscalled the morning star, Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far. Byron. A weapon consisting of a heavy ball set with spikes, either attached to a staff or suspended from one by a chain. -- Morning watch , the watch between four A. M. and eight A.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MORNING)

• Matutinal
• Early
• morning
• waking
• dawning

Related words: (words related to MORNING)

• WAKETIME
  Time during which one is awake. Mrs. Browning.
• WAKE-ROBIN
  Any plant of the genus Arum, especially, in England, the cuckoopint . Note: In America the name is given to several species of Trillium, and sometimes to the Jack-in-the-pulpit.
• EARLY
  Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson.
• MORNE
  Of or pertaining to the morn; morning. "White as morne milk." Chaucer.
• WAKEN
  To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened. Early, Turnus wakening with the light. Dryden.
• WAKIF
  The person creating a wakf.
• MATUTINAL
  Of or pertaining to the morning; early.
• MORNING-GLORY
  A climbing plant having handsome, funnel- shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal.
• WAKING
  1. The act of waking, or the state or period of being awake. 2. A watch; a watching. "Bodily pain . . . standeth in prayer, in wakings, in fastings." Chaucer. In the fourth waking of the night. Wyclif .
• DAWN
  fr. dæg day; akin to D. dagen, G. tagen, Icel. daga, Dan. dages, Sw. dagas. See Day. 1. To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns. In the end of the Sabbath, as it
• WAKENER
  One who wakens.
• MORNINGTIDE
  Morning time.
• WAKF
  The granting or dedication of property in trust for a pious purpose, that is, to some object that tends to the good of mankind, as to support a mosque or caravansary, to provide for support of one's family, kin, or neighbors, to benefit
• MORNWARD
  Towards the morn. And mornward now the starry hands move on. Lowell.
• WAKER
  One who wakes.
• WAKEFUL
  Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant. Dissembling sleep, but wakeful with the fright. Dryden. -- Wake"ful*ly, adv. -- Wake"ful*ness, n.
• WAKENING
  The revival of an action. Burrill. They were too much ashamed to bring any wakening of the process against Janet. Sir W. Scott. (more info) 1. The act of one who wakens; esp., the act of ceasing to sleep; an awakening.
• MORNING
  Pertaining to the first part or early part of the day; being in the early part of the day; as, morning dew; morning light; morning service. She looks as clear As morning roses newly washed with dew. Shak. Morning gown, a gown worn in the morning
• MORN
  The first part of the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry. From morn To noun he fell, from noon to dewy eve. Milton. (more info) OS. morgan, G. morgen, Icel. morginn, morgunn, Sw. morgon, Dan.
• WAKE
  The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army. This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions. De Quincey. Several humbler persons . . . formed quite a procession in the dusty wake
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• LATEWAKE
  See LICH
• HALF-YEARLY
  Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.
• CROMORNA
  A certain reed stop in the organ, of a quality of tone resembling that of the oboe. (more info) G. krummhorn crooked horn, cornet, an organ pipe turned like a
• WIDE-AWAKE
  Fully awake; not Dickens.
• AWAKENING
  Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. -- A*wak"en*ing*ly, adv.
• SLEEPWAKING
  The state of one mesmerized, or in a partial and morbid sleep.
• FORWAKED
  Tired out with excessive waking or watching. Chaucer.
• SLEEPWAKER
  On in a state of magnetic or mesmeric sleep.
• TOMORN
  To-morrow. Chaucer.
• PEARLY
  1. Containing pearls; abounding with, or yielding, pearls; as, pearly shells. Milton. 2. Resembling pearl or pearls; clear; pure; transparent; iridescent; as, the pearly dew or flood.
• REARLY
  Early. Beau. & Ft.
• REWAKE
  To wake again.