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MORROW
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Dictionary entry overview: What does morrow mean?
• MORROW (noun)
The noun MORROW has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: MORROW used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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