forenoon

[ noun fawr-noon, fohr-; adjective fawr-noon, fohr- ]

noun

1. the period of daylight before noon.
2. the latter part of the morning.

adjective

1. of or relating to the forenoon.

forenoon

/ ˈfɔːˌnuːn /

noun

1. 1. the daylight hours before or just before noon
   2. ( as modifier )

      a forenoon conference

Word History and Origins

Origin of forenoon¹

1375–1425; late Middle English. See fore-, noon

Example Sentences

As it is not their custom to visit or be visited in the forenoon, it was hardly fair to take a stranger to see them.

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What a merry place a steamer is on a calm sunny summer forenoon, and what an appetite every one seems to have!

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She usually arrived by an early train in the forenoon and returned by the late train at night.

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They had dug some clams at the low tide in the forenoon and put them away, covered with wet seaweed.

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Before the exercises of the forenoon were concluded, she was summoned to see a visitor, and did not reappear before intermission.

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