morn

[mawrn] /mɔrn/
noun, Literary.
1.
morning.
Origin
before 900; Middle English morn(e), Old English morne (dative of morgen morning); cognate with Dutch, German Morgen
Examples from the web for morn
  • Every morn ing she fills the measuring cup to exactly one cup.
  • They got up a sail this morn thinking it would hold the ship more steady, but the wind soon tore it to shreds.
British Dictionary definitions for morn

morn

/mɔːn/
noun
1.
a poetic word for morning
2.
(Scot) the morn, tomorrow
3.
(Scot) the morn's nicht, tomorrow night
Word Origin
Old English morgen; compare Old High German morgan, Old Norse morginn
Word Origin and History for morn
n.

contracted from Middle English morwen, from Old English (Mercian) margen (dative marne), earlier morgen (dative morgne) "morning, forenoon, sunrise," from Proto-Germanic *murgana- "morning" (cf. Old Saxon morgan, Old Frisian morgen, Middle Dutch morghen, Dutch morgen, Old High German morgan, German Morgen, Gothic maurgins), from PIE *merk-, perhaps from root *mer- "to blink, twinkle" (cf. Lithuanian mirgeti "to blink").