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UK
/fɔːnˈuːn/
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NOUN
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the time period between dawn and noon
I spent the morning running errands
How To Use forenoon In A Sentence
- Soon the men of F Company that were detailed to serve in the carbineer company joined us; they had been on the skirmish line all the forenoon, but became somewhat mixed when the firing commenced, and were ordered to report to their respective companies. History of Company F, 1st Regiment, R.I. Volunteers, during the Spring and Summer of 1861
- Shopkeepers, professional men, painters, plumbers and mechanics must have been counting down the last lingering seconds of the forenoon. MOONDROP TO MURDER
- The greenish yellow marsh meadow locust prefers to sing on hot, quiet forenoons from moist ditches and grassy banks.
- -- So Paul being to return home after his long absence, I spent the forenoon on the fell shearing, and earned a stone of wool and a windle of rye. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time
- One stays abed until the forenoon and neglects both blog and facial hair alike.
- You cannot have two forenoons in the same day.
- Whether my companions heard it or not, I know not, but it was a kind of matins to me, and the event of that forenoon. The Maine Woods
- I remember the long green cucumber, soft and fleshy and a delight on that hot April forenoon.
- Western Highlands, and was living in some house on the coast, how sad and still the Atlantic must have been all this wet forenoon, with the islands of Colonsay and Oronsay lying remote and gray and misty in the far and desolate plain of the sea! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873
- I came always in the afternoon, for in the forenoon when I had finished my reading or writing I was at work spinning, or helping the monks prepare inks or parchment.