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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɔːnɪŋ/

• (General American) IPA: /ˈmɔɹnɪŋ/

• 韻: -ɔː(ɹ)nɪŋ
• (Ireland) IPA: /ˈmoɹnɪŋ/
  • (Dublin) IPA: /ˈmɑːɹnən/, /ˈmɑːɹnəŋ/
• ハイフネーション: morn‧ing
• Homophone: mourning (horse–hoarse merger)
• (without the horse–hoarse merger)
  • (rhotic) IPA: /mɔːɹnɪŋ/
  • (non-rhotic) IPA: /mɔːnɪŋ/

名詞

morning (plural mornings)

1. The early part of the day, especially from midnight to noon. [from 13th c.]

   I'll see you tomorrow morning.

   I'm working in the morning, so let's meet in the afternoon.

   • 1835, Sir John Ross, Sir James Clark Ross, Narrative of a Second Voyage in Search of a North-west Passage …, volume 1, pages 284–5:

     Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.

   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     One morning I had been driven to the precarious refuge afforded by the steps of the inn, after rejecting offers from the Celebrity to join him in a variety of amusements. But even here I was not free from interruption, for he was seated on a horse-block below me, playing with a fox terrier.

   • 1988 October 11, Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (comic):

     Sheesh, it's two in the morning. Why do kids always have to feel sick at two in the morning?

2. (figurative) The early part of anything. [from 16th c.]
3. (obsolete) That part of the day from dawn until the main meal (typically in late afternoon). [18th–19th c.]
   • 1791, Charlotte Smith, Celestina, Broadview, published 2004, page 101:

     Celestina […] retired to her own room, leaving her friend to the pleasing and important occupation of the toilet, in which half of what is now called morning, was usually passed by Matilda.

   • 1813, Jane Austen, letter, 26 October:

     We breakfasted before nine, and do not dine till half-past six on the occasion, so I hope we three shall have a long morning enough.

4. (chiefly Scotland) The first alcoholic drink of the day; a morning draught. [from 18th c.]

同意語

• (time from dawn to noon): forenoon; yeender (dialect); see also Thesaurus:morning
• (time from midnight to noon): a.m.; forenoon; yeender (dialect)

等位語

• afternoon; evening; night

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間投詞

morning

1. Ellipsis of good morning.
   • 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Excess Express:

     Hey, ‘morning, Mario. Have you been to the dining car yet today?

アナグラム

• norming