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The word morning originally referred to the sunrise but today usually refers to the period of time between between dawn and noon. Morning precedes afternoon, evening and night in the sequence of a day.
The name (which comes from the Middle English word morwening) was formed from the analogy of evening using the word “morn” (in Middle English morwen), and originally meant the coming of the sunrise as evening meant the beginning of the close of the day. The Middle English morwen dropped over time and became morwe, then eventually morrow, which properly means “morning”, but was soon used to refer to the following day (i.e., “tomorrow”), as in other Germanic languages—English is unique in restricting the word to the newer usage. The Spanish word “mañana” has two meanings in English: “morning,” and “tomorrow.”
The most obvious manifestation of this meaning is in English speaking countries where the greeting changes from “good night” to “good morning” when midnight passes.
Morning may also…