forenoon
Use Forenoon in a sentence
noun
1.
the period of daylight before noon.
2.
the latter part of the morning.
adjective
3.
of or pertaining to the forenoon.
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| —n | |
| a. the daylight hours before or just before noon | |
| b. (as modifier): a forenoon conference | |
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Forenoon
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Example sentences
The following forenoon the baggage started, in a couple of two-wheeled ox-carts, for the landing where the steamboat awaited us.
It had begun raining in the night, and the heavy downpour continued throughout the forenoon.
The earthquake commenced at half-past eleven o'clock in the forenoon.
During the engagement in the forenoon he was wounded but stayed by his little gun until victory was won.
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