morrow

«morrow» in Mova's school 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.

part of speech

noun (the morrow)

meaning for a pupil

1) (old-fashioned, literary) The next day; tomorrow. tree →

2) (old-fashioned) The morning, as in the greeting "Good morrow!", meaning "Good morning". tree →

3) (literary) The time just after an event, as in "on the morrow of the war". tree →

sense in the lessons

Found in old books, fairy tales, poems and the Bible; it tells the reader the story is set long ago or the speaker talks in an old-fashioned way. Phrases: "on the morrow" (the next day), "good morrow", "take no thought for the morrow" (Bible, do not worry about tomorrow).

examples

• "We shall leave on the morrow," said the knight. tree →
• "Good morrow, sir!" called the innkeeper. tree →
• The king promised an answer on the morrow. tree →
• In the old story, the travellers rested and set off on the morrow. tree →
• "Take no thought for the morrow," the Bible verse says. tree →
• Who knows what the morrow will bring? tree →
• The wizard said the spell would end on the morrow. tree →

note

Old-fashioned; in normal speech and writing say "tomorrow" or "the next day". Usually "the morrow", not "a morrow". Not the same as "marrow" (a big vegetable, or the soft inside of bones).

In the corpora

• Here to-day—in next week to-morrow! ...
• I'll send the money on to-morrow?
• 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.

Trees and pragmatics

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