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MORROW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does morrow mean? 

MORROW (noun)
  The noun MORROW has 1 sense:

1. the next dayplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


MORROW (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The next day

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Context example:

whenever he arrives she leaves on the morrow

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)


 Context examples 


I will go to my house to-morrow, and open the school, if you like, next week.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“You might tell them at Briarbrae that I hope to be back to-morrow night,” cried Phelps, as we began to move from the platform.

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

With your consent, I trust to have the honor of calling at eleven o'clock the day after to-morrow (Wednesday) morning.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Well, you tell 'm to-morrow, that's all," he said.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

But surely you may put off this old lady till to-morrow: she is not so near her end, I presume, but that she may hope to see another day.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

But there is no time fixed; perhaps to-morrow, or whenever your spirits are composed enough.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And on the morrow Justine died.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I'll have to cheer him up to-morrow.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The two Siwashes put crosses opposite their signatures, received a summons to appear on the morrow with all their tribe for a further witnessing of things, and were allowed to go.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

I shall call with the King to-morrow, and with you, if you care to come with us.

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



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