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FORENOON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The time period between dawn and noon
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)
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)
