forenoon en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈfoənuːn/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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- /ˈfɔɹnun/ (General-American)
- /ˈfɔːnuːn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
- /ˈfo(ː)ɹnuːn/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
Etymology
From Middle English forenone, equivalent to fore- + noon.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) Synonym of morning: the part of the day between sunrise and noon.
Later in the forenoon the gale increased more and more; the seas set in, and the waves grew bigger and bigger[.]
1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 182:It was run in by Ranochan of Polmadie on the forenoon slow to Carlisle and the afternoon slow back to the North.
1959 February, A. G. Dunbar, “The "Dunalastair I" 4-4-0s of the Caledonian”, in Trains Illustrated, page 87: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.
1910, Erwin Rosen, In the Legion, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2012: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.
1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, act 2, scene 1:Desire to be alone in forenoon.
2003, Timothey Field Allen, Handbook Of Materia Medica & Homoeopathic Therapeutics, HTML edition, B. Jain Publishers, →ISBN: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.
1945, Nelson Algren, “How the Devil Came Down Division Street”, in The Best American Short Stories, (also in The Neon Wilderness, 1947):
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| forenoons | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
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Translations (26)
ru у́тро (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · tk guşluk (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · bg предобед (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · gag kuşluk (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · fi aamupäivä (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · ar ضُحًا (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · eo antaŭtagmezo (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · de Vormittag (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · pl przedpołudnie (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · is fyrirmiðdagur (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · lv priekšpusdiena (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · sk predpoludnie (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · tr kuşluk (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · ur چاشْت (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · slr goşluq (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · sv förmiddag (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · fi aamu (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · is hádegi (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · fi huomen (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · da formiddag (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · hu délelőtt (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · id duha (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · alt эртен (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · cs dopoledne (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · he לִפְנֵי הַצָּהֳרַיִם (forenoon - part of the day before noon) · hi पूर्वाह्न (forenoon - part of the day before noon)