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    MORROW

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    The next dayplay

    Example:

    whenever he arrives she leaves on the morrow

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

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

    24-hour interval; day; mean solar day; solar day; twenty-four hour period; twenty-four hours (time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis)

    Credits

     Context examples: 

    I know what I shall do to-morrow, the first thing—run out a light anchor and kedge the schooner off the beach.

    (The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

    That belongs to—well, perhaps it is hardly fair to tell the name until to-morrow morning.

    (The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

    I am to get his report to-morrow if he can possibly make it.

    (Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

    I left Salem House upon the morrow afternoon.

    (David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

    But you may come again in the cool of to-morrow morning.

    (Emma, by Jane Austen)

    I shall offer to pay him to-morrow; he will rant and storm about his love for you, and there will be an end of the matter.

    (Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

    “But we’ll both come down to Crawley to-morrow. So good night, Sir Charles.”

    (Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

    You can report to me to-morrow in London, Martha, at Claridge’s Hotel.

    (His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

    Can not we be gone to-morrow?

    (Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

    We start at dawn to-morrow, and ye are to have the horses of Sir Robert Cheney's company.

    (The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)


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