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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morrow/#m1)

2) (old-fashioned) The morning, as in the greeting "Good morrow!", meaning "Good morning". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morrow/#m2)

3) (literary) The time just after an event, as in "on the morrow of the war". [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morrow/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morrow/#x1)
- "Good morrow, sir!" called the innkeeper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morrow/#x2)
- The king promised an answer on the morrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morrow/#x3)
- In the old story, the travellers rested and set off on the morrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morrow/#x4)
- "Take no thought for the morrow," the Bible verse says. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morrow/#x5)
- Who knows what the morrow will bring? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morrow/#x6)
- The wizard said the spell would end on the morrow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morrow/#x7)

### 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! ...](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/32-willows-ch2-part4-the-wreck-and-the-new-craze/24/)
- [I'll send the money on to-morrow?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/54-willows-ch8-part3-no-money-no-pocket/16/)
- [Else, if thou refuse to let My people go, behold, to-morrow will I bring locusts into thy border;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.274/)
- [And Joshua said unto the people: 'Sanctify yourselves; for to-morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JOS.47/)
- [And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and it was told Abimelech.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JDG.302/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «morrow» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/morrow/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.