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morrow
1 American
[mawr-oh, mor-oh]
/ ˈmɔr oʊ, ˈmɒr oʊ /
Morrow
2
American
[mawr-oh, mor-oh]
/ ˈmɔr oʊ, ˈmɒr oʊ /
noun
morrow
British
/ ˈmɒrəʊ /
noun
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the next day
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the period following a specified event
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the morning
Usage
What does morrow mean? Morrow is a literary or poetic way of saying tomorrow or the next day. In some cases, it’s also used to mean the morning or the period after something. Morrow is most often seen in old poetry and literature. No one uses the word morrow in everyday speech unless they’re trying to mimic a poetic style or sound like a character from an old play. Example: There’s never enough time today—if only we could borrow from the morrow.
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of morrow
1225–75; Middle English morwe, variant of morwen, Old English morgen morning. See morn
Vocabulary lists containing morrow
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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Good morrow one and all and welcome to the real football factories another fascinating night of Europa League behaviour.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 25, 2021
On the morrow Fridgeir made ready to go, and many with him, Egil being one of the party.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2019
“On the morrow of the Republican success isolationist conceptions prevailed,” Winston Churchill wrote in “The Gathering Storm.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2017
So even when Robert received the preliminary diagnosis of a burst ulcer — and not, say, extraterrestrial fertilization — I wasn’t entirely sure he’d live to see another morrow.
From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2016
"We'll spend the night here and make the ascent on the morrow," Brynden told him.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
Specialist stonemason Nathan Morrow was brought on board to help with their removal.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Andrew Morrow, an attorney spearheading the litigation for the firm, said in court Thursday that the group has passed off about 500 of its 1,200 landfill clients to another personal injury firm.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
“People don’t want to think about what could go wrong on vacation when they’re planning one,” said Suzanne Morrow, chief executive at InsureMyTrip, a travel-insurance comparison business.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 9, 2026
“We’re definitely having growing pains,” said Jeff Morrow, business manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 415, whose members are thriving amid the build-out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 9, 2026
Ogden Morrow convinced Halliday that Anorak’s Quest was better than most of the computer games currently on the market, and encouraged him to try selling it.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Old mortality scoffs and the Crome-dwellers compromise with their morrows as they may.
From Time Magazine Archive
She ought really to have gone to sleep, but whenever she closed her eyes some new thought of the morrow and of all the other morrows would make them spring open again.
From Capricious Caroline by Effie Adelaide Rowlands
It registers the morrows Of lovers and winds and streams, And the face of a thousand sorrows At the postern gate of dreams.
From Behind the Arras A Book of the Unseen by Thomas Buford Meteyard
And for the first time in my life I found myself wondering whether I did want to know so very much about those morrows after all.
From The Tower of Oblivion by Oliver [pseud.] Onions
Here know how Victory borrows For the brave soul a front as of disaster, And in the bannered East what glorious morrows For all the blackness of the night speed surer, faster.
From Washington's Birthday by Robert Haven Schauffler
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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