FORENOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does forenoon mean? 

• FORENOON (noun)
  The noun FORENOON has 1 sense:

1. the time period between dawn and noon

  Familiarity information: FORENOON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORENOON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The time period between dawn and noon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

forenoon; morn; morning; morning time

Context example:

I spent the morning running errands

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 

It was in the forenoon, between eleven and twelve.

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

They set out early in the forenoon, some on horseback, the rest in carriages; I witnessed both the departure and the return.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Accordingly I was called out of school next forenoon, and found Mr. Micawber in the parlour; who had called to say that the dinner would take place as proposed.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was in the early forenoon of the next day that we made the great departure.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The forenoon was a dreary time, but at noon the solicitor came: Mr. Marquand, of Wholeman, Sons, Marquand & Lidderdale.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Poor Marianne, languid and low from the nature of her malady, and feeling herself universally ill, could no longer hope that tomorrow would find her recovered; and the idea of what tomorrow would have produced, but for this unlucky illness, made every ailment severe; for on that day they were to have begun their journey home; and, attended the whole way by a servant of Mrs. Jennings, were to have taken their mother by surprise on the following forenoon.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

You must know that every Saturday forenoon I ride on my bicycle to Farnham Station, in order to get the 12:22 to town.

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

Mrs. Gummidge had been in a low state all day, and had burst into tears in the forenoon, when the fire smoked.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The second day brought them into the cherished, or the prohibited, county of Somerset, for as such was it dwelt on by turns in Marianne's imagination; and in the forenoon of the third they drove up to Cleveland.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

He furnished me with a plan of the house, and he told me that in the forenoon the study was always empty, as the secretary was employed up here.

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