morrow

«morrow» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: the next day, tomorrow — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

the next day, tomorrow

part of speech

noun

meaning for a pupil

The day after the present day. tree →

how it differs from today

Old-fashioned; today we say "tomorrow", and "the morrow" is used mainly in literary or old texts.

examples

• Else, if thou refuse to let My people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border; (Torah EXO.10.4, JPS 1917) tree →
• To-morrow evening you will die yourself!" (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• And I will put a division between My people and thy people — by to-morrow shall this sign be.' (Torah EXO.8.23, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

morrow

tests

manual 10.4; corpora 468 (Torah 22, tales 446, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 53.0 (Torah alone 51.3); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

In the corpora

• Else, if thou refuse to let My people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border;
• And Joshua said unto the people: 'Sanctify yourselves; for to-morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.'
• And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and it was told Abimelech.
• And it came to pass on the morrow, that Pashhur brought forth Jeremiah out of the stocks.
• Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «morrow» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.