morrow

See also: Morrow

English

Etymology

From Middle English morwe, morwen, from Old English morgen, from Proto-West Germanic *morgan, *morgin, from Proto-Germanic *murganaz, *murginaz; compare Dutch morgen and German Morgen.

Doublet of morgen and morn. Both morn and morrow continue earlier Middle English morwen (the former through early contraction, the latter through regular reduction of -en).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈmɒɹ.əʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmɑɹ.oʊ/

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• (Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɹ.oʊ/
• Rhymes: -ɒɹəʊ

Noun

morrow (plural morrows)

1. (archaic or poetic) The next or following day.
   • 1906, Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany], Time and the Gods‎^[1], London: William Heineman, →OCLC, page 27:

     Two men were walking in the street; one said to the other: “Upon the morrow I will sup with thee.” And the Pestilence grinned a grin that none beheld, baring his dripping teeth, and crept away to see whether upon the morrow those men should sup together.

   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 130:

     The balance of the day and evening was filled with preparation for a great hunt—spears were overhauled, quivers were replenished, bows were restrung; and all the while the village witch doctor passed through the busy throngs disposing of various charms and amulets designed to protect the possessor from hurt, or bring him good fortune in the morrow’s hunt.

2. (archaic) Morning.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:morrow.

Synonyms

• (next day): tomorrow
• (morning): morn, morning; see also Thesaurus:morning

Derived terms

• amorrow
• good morrow
• morrowless
• morrow-mass
• morrowtide
• overmorrow
• tomorrow
• yester-morrow

Translations

the next or following day — see also the next day,‎ tomorrow

• Catalan: l'endemà
• Czech: zítřek (cs) m
• Dutch: morgen (nl)
• Estonian: homne (päev); järgnev päev
• Finnish: huomen (fi)
• French: lendemain (fr) m
• Galician: mañá (gl)
• German: Morgen (de)
• Gothic: 𐌰𐍆𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌰𐌲𐍃 m (afardags)
• Ottoman Turkish: یارین (yarın), ایرته (irte, erte)
• Portuguese: amanhã (pt)
• Russian: следующий день m (sledujuščij denʹ), завтрашний день m (zavtrašnij denʹ)

morning — see also morning

• Bulgarian: у́тро (bg) n (útro)
• Czech: ráno (cs) n
• Dutch: morgen (nl), ochtend (nl)
• Estonian: hommik (et)
• Finnish: huomen (fi)
• French: matin (fr) m
• Galician: mañá (gl) f
• German: Morgen (de) m
• Norwegian: morgen (no) m
• Portuguese: manhã (pt) f
• Russian: у́тро (ru) n (útro)
• Spanish: mañana (es) f
• Swedish: morgon (sv) c
• Tagalog: umaga (tl)
• Turkish: sabah (tr)
• Ukrainian: ранок (uk) (ranok)

Verb

morrow (third-person singular simple present morrows, present participle morrowing, simple past and past participle morrowed)

1. (intransitive) To dawn
   • 1885, Sir Richard Burton, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp:

     […] he did her bidding but hardly touched food; after which he lay at full length on his bed all the night through in cogitation deep until morning morrowed.