morn
n. uncountablen. the early part of the day. This is an old-fashioned or poetic way to say 'morning'.
n. the early part of the day from sunrise to noon; used primarily in poetry or literary contexts as a shortened form of 'morning'.
The birds began to sing at the break of morn.
The poet described the dew on the grass in the early morn as if it were a field of diamonds.
In the quiet of the morn, before the village stirred to life, the mist clung to the valley floor like a heavy grey blanket.
From Middle English morn, morwen, from Old English morgen, from Proto-West Germanic morgan, morgin, from Proto-Germanic murganaz, murginaz, from Proto-Indo-European mr̥kéno, mr̥kóno, from Proto-Indo-European mr̥Hko, from mer- (“to shimmer, glisten”). See also West Frisian moarn, Low German Morgen, Dutch morgen, German Morgen, Danish morgen, Norwegian morgon; also Lithuanian mérkti (“to blink, twinkle”), Sanskrit मरीचि (márīci, “ray of light”), Greek μέρα (méra, “morning”). Doublet of morrow and morgen. See also morning.
Primarily restricted to verse or archaic prose; rarely used in contemporary speech or standard academic writing.