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Another word for forenoon

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Noun

  1. The time of day from sunrise to noon

    See also:

    time

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Another word for forenoon

Noun
  1. See also:

    morning

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • It was most frequented in the forenoon, and then only by men.

  • About 1689 his health, never very strong, began to fail seriously and he gradually withdrew from his public engagements, ceasing his communications to the Royal Society, and advertising his desire to be excused from receiving guests, "unless upon occasions very extraordinary," on Tuesday and Friday forenoon, and Wednesday and Saturday afternoon.

  • Mrs. Cummings was taken away to the Sister's hospital this forenoon and I fear she shan't ever return.

  • Simultaneously the forenoon maximum occurs earlier and the afternoon maximum later in the day.

  • In calculating the percentages of forenoon and afternoon occurrences half the entries under noon and midnight were assigned to each half of the day.

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