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forenoon

/noun fawr-noon, fohr-; adjective fawr-noon, fohr-/US // noun ˌfɔrˈnun, ˌfoʊr-; adjective ˈfɔrˌnun, ˈfoʊr- //UK // (ˈfɔːˌnuːn) //

午前,上午,上半晌

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the period of daylight before noon.
    • : the latter part of the morning.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of or relating to the forenoon.

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Examples

  • As it is not their custom to visit or be visited in the forenoon, it was hardly fair to take a stranger to see them.

  • What a merry place a steamer is on a calm sunny summer forenoon, and what an appetite every one seems to have!

  • She usually arrived by an early train in the forenoon and returned by the late train at night.

  • They had dug some clams at the low tide in the forenoon and put them away, covered with wet seaweed.

  • Before the exercises of the forenoon were concluded, she was summoned to see a visitor, and did not reappear before intermission.