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FORENOON

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time period between dawn and noonplay

Example:

I spent the morning running errands

Synonyms:

forenoon; morn; morning; morning time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("forenoon" is a kind of...):

period; period of time; time period (an amount of time)

Meronyms (parts of "forenoon"):

early-morning hour (an hour early in the morning)

Holonyms ("forenoon" is a part of...):

day; daylight; daytime (the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside)

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 Context examples: 

As often as Mick Walker went away in the course of that forenoon, I mingled my tears with the water in which I was washing the bottles; and sobbed as if there were a flaw in my own breast, and it were in danger of bursting.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

If, any sunny forenoon, she had spread a little pair of wings and flown away before my eyes, I don't think I should have regarded it as much more than I had had reason to expect.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was scarcely more delighted with the prospect of earning my own bread, than with the hope of earning it under my old master; in short, acting on the advice of Agnes, I sat down and wrote a letter to the Doctor, stating my object, and appointing to call on him next day at ten in the forenoon.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)




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