forenoon
English
Etymology
From Middle English forenone, equivalent to fore- + noon.
Noun
forenoon (plural forenoons)
- Synonym of morning: the part of the day between sunrise and noon.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, ii 1:
- You are ambitious for poor knaves' caps and legs; you wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange-wife and a fosset-seller, and then rejourn the controversy of threepence to a second day of audience.
- 1945, Nelson Algren, "How the Devil Came Down Division Street", The Best American Short Stories 1945 (also in The Neon Wilderness, 1947):
- This, too, was why no one, not even the twins, paid Papa O. any heed when the family returned from Mass one Sunday forenoon and he told them someone had been knocking while they were away.
- 1910, Erwin Rosen, In the Legion[1], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2012:
- A hot sun burned down on us. Ten times during a single forenoon every stitch of clothes on one's body was soaked with perspiration, and ten times it dried again.
- 1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, ii 1:
Related terms
Translations
forenoon - part of the day before noon
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morning — see morning
References
- "forenoon, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.